Singapore, 14 July 2010 - Chopard celebrated its 150th Anniversary
and showcased its stunning Animal World Collection with a grand dinner
at the new hotel, The Fullerton Bay Hotel to 150 guests. Gracing the
evening was Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Co-President of Chopard who
specially flew in for the gala event and the opening
of the Marina Bay Sand Boutique .
Guests were fortunate to see 60 out of the 150 unique pieces
of the Animal World Collection, a rare occurrence of so many pieces to
be gathered at one place, as some of the pieces are either in various
locations or being sold.
The Marina Bay Sands (MBS) where the new boutique is located...
Directly opposite MBS, the location for
the evening gala event ...
The Fullerton Bay Hotel, the first
waterfront hotel in Singapore, was just open last week. Situated at
the historic Clifford Pier, a landing point for many of Singapore’s
early settlers.
The front of the hotel ...
Green carpet (instead) to be relevant
to the Animal World.
The hallway to the cocktail area ...
The sitting plan for the dinner at the
restaurant, Clifford.
The reception ...
The cocktail area, at the lounge, the
Landing Point.
Showcases of the Animal World
Collection were displayed ...
A few pictures of the
wonderful pieces ...
A Lady L.U.C !
The view of the lounge, at the other
end ...
A view of MBS from the outdoor terrace
of the lounge.
A view of the lounge outdoor terrace
...
Mr Patrick Normand, Managing Director
of Chopard Asia with his wife.
The retail team of Chopard in
Singapore...
About 7pm, the guests starting to arrive ...
Registration ...
After that, guests walked towards the
lounge area for cocktail ...
Photo-session for guests. In addition, camera-crews from news
agencies were present to cover the event ...
Mingling among the guests ...
Viewing the pieces ...
Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Co-President
of Chopard arrived early and chatted with guests ...
Beautiful view from the cocktail area
...
Models wearing the Animal World
Collection walked around to show the guests the pieces up close and
personal ...
The night scene, beautiful skyline ...
The hotel with docking bays ....
Guest having a pic with the models ...
TV interview ...
Another television coverage, presenter
(on the left) ...
Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Co-President
of Chopard having a conversation with our CEO, Dr MTF ...
A guest who purchased a piece of the
Animal World Collection arrived ...
Chatting with Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele
...
About 8:15pm, the 'Jungle Beat'
sounded, calling for attention ...
Models with the Animal World Pieces
sashaying in from one end to the other end of the
lounge ....
After that, Patrick Normand took the
stage and welcome all the guests .
Next was Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Co-President of Chopard.
She
gave a brief introduction of the Animal World Collection and also
mentioned about a corporate social responsibility which Chopard will be
supporting the WWF’s Tiger Initiative prevent the potential of tiger
extinction and to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, the
next Year of the Tiger.
For more information about the WWF's Tiger intiative,
please click here to proceed to www.panda.org
The Chopard WWF Tiger Initiative was
mentioned in this press release, please
click here to read more.
After which a short speech by Michael
Baltzer, Leader of Tiger Network Initiative in Singapore thanking
Chopard for supporting the initiative.
According to him, as of this
year, the tiger population is estimated to be about 3200 and if no
intervention is done, tiger will face extinction soon.
The initiative
is ambitious, and not just preserving the existing tiger population but
aim to double the population by the year 2022, the next cycle of year
of the Tiger (according to the Chinese Zodiac).
Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele looked definitely very
pleased supporting the
initiative, as she is known to be fond of animals.
Passing the 'baton' back to Patrick, and he requested the
guests to proceed to the dinner hall ...
Oops....I was caught
Guests proceeding to the dinner venue
...
Attracted by pieces while on the way
...
On the way to the dinner venue,
the models were also present to show the pieces. A few pictures of
them ...
Dinner venue at the Clifford...
Petrina Teoh, PR Manager of Chopard
Asia, ensuring guests were comfortable ...
After the dinner, guests were treated to desserts and more
champagne at the lounge and more eye-candies (on the models) ....
Valerie Chan, Retail Director of
Chopard Asia explaining to a guest the intricacy of the Butterfly set
...
Guests enquiring about the piece on
Caroline ...
More mingling ...
A ring which resembled somebody's pet
...
A closer look ...
And happily sharing his joy with
Patrick ...
Caroline and friend ...
The party continued
till late.
Congratulations to Chopard again!
Kong
This message has been edited by Kong on 2010-07-19 10:58:46 
