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Chopard Alpine Eagle Tourbillon.
Not my favorite, but since I saw it , I took the opportunity to take some wrist shots.
Not a fan of tourbillons which make a hole in the dial, but you already know that.
Best,
Nicolas
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Explore the Chopard Alpine Eagle L.U.C XPS with insights from collectors. Discover its limited production, Lucent Steel, and L.U.C 1.96 movement.
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Chopard Alpine Eagle Tourbillon.
Not my favorite, but since I saw it , I took the opportunity to take some wrist shots. Not a fan of tourbillons which make a hole in the dial, but you already know that. Best, Nicolas ...
Putting aside aesthetic sensibilities...
This watch has some impressive stats: - only 8mm thick - 100m water resistant - 65 hour power reserve - COSC certified - Poinçon de Genève The Royal Oak RD#3 came out around the same time, also a slim flying tourbillon. Let's compare for fun. - 8.1mm thic...
this iteration seems to be around
I was offered one from the AD some weeks ago as well. I believe it is limited so rather surprising..
I'm not crazy about it, but it is a nice one!
The good: it's really thin, at 3.3 mm. It's got a decent power reserve. The micro rotor doesn't ever block the Tourbillon! The surprises: it's got a strange 25.200 vph - kind of unusual. Balance wheel is also a bit on the small side, but it can't get much...
The movement is 3.3mm thin! Quite thin!
Case is around 7.2mm on the LUC dress watch Tourbillon version and is 8.0mm on the Alpine Eagle Tourbillon sports watch version.
I agree with you concerning the size of the balance wheel and the 3.5 Hz beat rate, but I personally like the fact that the iris pattern of the dial spreads from the tourbillon and not form the central pinion.
It gives the iris pattern a very special dynamic touch, imo.
You are right!
The starting point from within the dial does bring a lot of focus there. And is something even the new salmon dialed XPS doesn't have - the XPS has the iris pattern emanating from the central pinion. It'd probably look better if it centered from the small...
Maybe, yes.
But I'm not sure that it would work as well with the XPS as with the Flying Tourbillon, as the small seconds subdial isn't positioned as low on the dial as the Tourbillon hole: the XPS has a half-index at 6, whereas the Tourbillon hasn't. And the bezel of...
