If you take a close look at the Chopard‘s LUC collection (that pays homage to the maison’s founder Louis-Ulysse) you will easily realize that the manufacturer is obsessed with moon phase complications for it is widely adopted by Chopard on most of its high-end wristwatches. The latest entry is the Chopard L.U.C Lunar Big Date with which the maison has debuted a couple of days ago.
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The Chopard L.U.C Lunar Big Date is the second edition of a model that first appeared in 2009 and after five years, during which Chopard has worked to upgrade its technical feats even further: the maison claims the indication is so precise that the gap between the rated value and the real lunar cycle amounts to just one day in 122 years.
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The moon phases are displayed, for both Northern and Southern hemispheres, through an opening cut on a disc, placed at 8, where they placed the Big Dipper constellation along with the Southern Cross, the smallest among the 88 known constellations.
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The Chopard L.U.C Lunar Big Date features a 42mm wide white gold case, big date indication at 12, silver-toned sunburst satin-brushed dial with roman numerals, dauphine like hour, minute and second hands; it is powered by an in-house movement with two barrels that ensures a total 65 hours of power reserve and whose balance wheel vibrates at 4Hz.
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The movement, which is COSC certified, is visible through the transparent case-back where, among other things, stands out the gold micro-rotor, a technical solution widely used on mechanical automatic high-end calibers in order to reduce their thickness.
(Photo credit: courtesy of Chopard)
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