Returning to the debate of the movement, the automated L.U.C 96.13-L operates at 4Hz (28,800bph), has 65 hours of power reserve, and is created from 355 components. In addition to time, complications include a perpetual calendar in addition to a 122 year true moon phase indicator. The calendar program indicates the date (via large date display window), month, day of the week, leap year, and 24 hour (day/night) index. The general layout of the dial is plausible, and about as active as it is possible to get with no feeling excessively cluttered. My only issue with the dial would be that while some of those sub-dial palms are easy to view, others are not. For instance, two of those sub-dials possess a stubbier, lume-filled hand that’s easy to spot. At precisely the same time, those very same dials also have a thinner, more polished hand which doesn’t benefit from using a contrasting shade. These thinner hands readily disappear given the lack of powerful comparison, and also make it hard to observe that the day of the week and the month if you would like to read them at a glance.Legibility is not a problem with the most important palms, which are those for the minutes and hours. Beautifully perfect in proportion, the hour and minute hands further benefit from using luminous substance, which contrasts well with the glossier tones of additional dial elements.Over the wealthy, metallic blue face are employed 18k white gold Roman numeral hour markers. Chopard Watches Usa Replica designed these elements cleverly, as they are curved in only 1 direction. That means they play with the light, but not too much as to cause blur blur. I will, nevertheless, ask that moving ahead Chopard choose to coat the sapphire crystal over the dial with AR-coating on both sides (not just the bottom as is done here).
Chopard gives its L.U.C Regulator a new look with a redesigned dial and case, while retaining the beautifully finished, eight day power reserve plus second time zone movement.
Modelled on regulator dial clocks, the Chopard L.U.C. Regulator has its minutes on the central axis, while the hours and seconds are on sub-dials. And it has the addition of a second time zone display at nine o’clock, along with the power reserve at noon. While the L.U.C. Regulator has been in Chopard’s line-up for nearly a decade, this is a facelifted version for Baselworld 2015, with a new dial and larger case. Regulator dials on clocks were meant to optimise legibility and improve the precision of time setting as such clocks were often used as reference clocks where high precision was imperative, like in watch factories or observatories. The new L.U.C. Regulator dial has been redesigned to that end, giving it a look reminiscent of a dashboard instrument, with large Arabic numerals for all the indications.
It’s equipped with the L.U.C 98.02-L calibre, a hand-wound movement with an eight day (or 216 hour) power reserve. The movement is both COSC and Geneva Seal certified, a somewhat redundant twosome since the Geneva Seal now demands both decorative finishing and functionality for the complete watch (while COSC tests the movement before it’s cased).
The dial is silvered with a radial brushed finish, while the case is rose gold with a recessed button to advance the second time zone hand. Dimensions are 43 mm wide and 9.78 mm high, making it flat relative to its diameter, a recipe for elegant proportions.
Pricing is not yet known but with the earlier generation of this model retailing for about US$40,000, expect this to be in the same ballpark.