There are plenty of great watches that we tend to sort of forget about, only to suddenly rediscover them down the road with newfound amazement. This is exactly what happened to me at a dinner last month with a few French collectors when I saw an original Chopard L.U.C. While the caliber was announced in 1996, the watch was first retailed a year later and garnered immediate praise. Its movement was judged “probably the finest automatic movement being produced in Switzerland today” by Walt Odets on TimeZone and Swiss magazine Montres Passion/Uhrenwelt awarded it the “Watch of the Year.” Some 20 years later, I had the chance to spend a bit of time with this dress watch and I fell for it, all over again.
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