{"id":26050,"date":"2021-03-22T08:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T08:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/the-chopard-mille-miglia-2016-xl-race-edition\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:03:38","slug":"chopard-mille-miglia-2016-xl-race-edition-photos-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/chopard-mille-miglia-2016-xl-race-edition-photos-price\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition watch hands-on"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chopard Mille Miglia XL Race Edition<\/strong> has been one of the nicest surprises I discovered at\u00a0Baselworld 2016<\/strong>. Despite the fact that I am a big fan of modern and sport cars rather than classic ones, the Mille Miglia<\/strong> race represents, without a doubt, a milestone in the history of car racing and Chopard<\/strong> are strictly tied \u2013 and always will \u2013 to the Mille Miglia<\/strong> race. It is somehow unthinkable that, one day, the winner of the re-edition of this car race could be awarded a different timepiece than a Chopard<\/strong><\/span> watch.<\/p>\n

\"ChopardEvery year, Chopard<\/strong> launch a limited edition piece dedicated to the historic race that, this year, will take place between the 19th<\/sup> and the 22nd<\/sup> of May. That new chronograph\u00a0is one of the most sought-after limited edition pieces among sport chronographs\u2019 fans, it is a must-have-item for all gentleman drivers \u2013 among whom is also Chopard<\/strong>\u2019s current president \u2013. This year, there are two special reasons why this timepiece is getting more and more interesting and precious; only 1,000 pieces<\/strong> of it will be released and, moreover, it will also be equipped with an in-house built caliber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"ChopardThe second piece of news that will contribute to the dramatic increase in value of this somehow vintage-looking chronograph\u00a0is that the Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition<\/strong> will be equipped with the new\u00a0in-house built<\/strong> 03.05-CI caliber<\/strong>. For the last few years, Chopard<\/strong> have been an integrated manufacture\u00a0and the presence of an in-house built chronograph movement hosted inside the case of a Mille Miglia<\/strong> timepiece will finally transform an already good<\/strong> sporty<\/strong> chronograph<\/strong>\u00a0into an outstanding<\/strong> high<\/strong>\u2013range<\/strong> one.<\/p>\n

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\"ChopardThis is the reason why this\u00a0one is the first Chopard<\/strong> timepiece that we have decided to tackle after\u00a0Baselworld<\/strong>. Chopard<\/strong> have held nothing back; the 03.05<\/strong>\u2013CI<\/strong> caliber is a very refined movement running at a frequency of 4Hz<\/strong>, sporting a visible column-wheel mechanism, guaranteeing up to 60 hours of power reserve<\/strong> and a COSC<\/strong>\u2013issued<\/strong> chronometer<\/strong> certification.<\/p>\n

\"ChopardThe brand has adopted again every single feature that had worked well in the 2014<\/strong> edition<\/strong> and it has further developed it or enlarged it. The size of the case<\/strong> has been increased to reach the 46mm<\/strong>, thus making this new timepiece the largest<\/strong> and manliest<\/strong> Mille<\/strong> Miglia<\/strong> watch ever crafted and, at the same time, it also makes it a classic chronograph, whose style completely clashes with current trends that still show us chronographs sporting cases that rarely exceed the 41mm<\/strong>\u2013diameter<\/strong>\u2013size<\/strong>. The two chronograph<\/strong> counters<\/strong> for the hours and the minutes have been crafted in a grey<\/strong> colour<\/strong> on a matted<\/strong> black<\/strong> background, a direct tribute to the contrasting tachometer<\/strong> and rev<\/strong>\u2013counter<\/strong> that used to appear on the instrument panels of those English convertible cars from the 60s.<\/p>\n

\"ChopardIf you take a look at the sketch of the Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition<\/strong>\u2019s case middle, you will immediately notice some details that can\u2019t be singled out in the picture, like, for instance, the shape of the lugs<\/strong> and the many bending<\/strong> radii<\/strong> on the case.<\/p>\n

\"ChopardWatch-making is the only field where small changes have no particular meaning if taken one by one, but when actually mixed together, they can easily change both the perception<\/strong> and personality<\/strong> of a timepiece. You will notice in this picture that the crown<\/strong> has\u00a0been re-designed, the Mille<\/strong> Miglia<\/strong> logo has left room for a classic (holed) three-spoke steering wheel. The Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition<\/strong> is also the first timepiece where neither the case nor the dial will create that special \u201cpatina<\/em>\u201d but the leather strap itself. This patent is called \u201cSuportlo<\/strong>\u201d and will make the strap age gracefully and make it soon look like a vintage strap.<\/p>\n

\"ChopardThe dial of the new timepiece is less cluttered than the previous model\u2019s, the Mille<\/strong> Miglia<\/strong> logo has now been moved to the 12 o\u2019clock location but my suggestion is: why did Chopard<\/strong> not dare a bit more and inserted applied Arabic numbers and logo? The Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition<\/strong> costs a tiny bit less than 10,000<\/strong> euro (9,660<\/strong> euro to be more precise), the retail price has grown a lot in comparison to the 2012 edition while the amount of released pieces has been halved and the technical package has dramatically improved. The mechanic components making this timepiece up have eventually made it jump to the same level of a\u00a0LUC<\/strong> and allowed it to sit at the same table as other manufacture-crafted chronographs.<\/p>\n