Chopard unveils the majestic Imperiale collection
This year, Swiss luxury Maison Chopard opens its iconic Imperiale collection to a stunning timepiece that flaunts its remarkable technical attributes, marking it as an aesthetic treasure
One to catch attention, the new mesmerising Chopard watch, the Imperiale Joaillerie, fascinates with its flow of sapphires decked out in rainbow colours. Housing 581 sapphires totalling 47.98 carats, which required more than 1,000 hours of work to select, cut, sort and set stones, this watch hails indeed from a treasure trove.
Owing its beauty from a host of patient, expert and inventive hands in the jewellery and watchmaking workshops of the Geneva-based Manufacture, the result was an exceptional 18-carat rose gold timepiece set with baguette-cut sapphires, forming a colour scale entirely covering the dial, case and bracelet. The crown and lug-covers are adorned with amethysts while a self-winding movement ticks steadily and secretly beneath this luminous mantle.
Entirely developed and produced in the workshops of Fleurier Ebauches, the Chopard Group company which is devoted to industrial-scale movement production, the Chopard 01.03-C calibre powering the Imperiale Joaillerie beats at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hertz) and has a barrel ensuring an excellent 60-hour power reserve – a set of characteristics ensuring the reliability, performance and precision of this mechanical self-winding movement. Chopard Calibre 01.03-C shines in all its luminous, multi-coloured splendour through an exhibition case-back.
Water resistant up to 50 metres, this jewellery masterpiece is adorned in subtly graded shades covering the entire colour spectrum – from majestic purple (the emblematic colour of the Imperiale collection) to anise green through an entire galaxy of blues, reds and yellows – running through the thousand and one nuances composing this kaleidoscope of colours. These chromatic variations create a firework-like burst, a dazzling and ever-renewed sight that catches and holds the gaze.
The Imperiale Joaillerie in rainbow colours perfectly symbolises the collection to which it belongs. Imperiale has above all an unmistakable aura and a magnetic presence, like the women who wear it. The self-assured, all-conquering and radiant Imperiale watch and jewellery collection echoes the grandeur of Empires. It transposes its identity codes into a modern interpretation and expresses its sculptural lines through stylish, sensual femininity. Its marvellous energy is now captured and exalted in the rainbow-coloured Imperiale Joaillerie watch, the crowning glory of this empire of resplendent purple and sparkling light. A timepiece fit for an empress, and just like in the finest fairy tales, the watch appears to be attired in an haute couture dress reflecting all the colours of the rainbow and forming an exquisitely delicate ‘fabric’.
