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credit: bucherer
Chopard L.U.C Strike One Bucherer Edition
This 8-pieces limited edition is the second sapphire gong Strike One to be crafted crafted from Lucent Steel. For previous variants, cf. my thread: An overview of the L.U.C Strike One iterations.
The light blue, hand-guilloché white gold dial features a baguette-cut diamond at 8 o’clock.
As always: 40 mm case & COSC-certified L.U.C 96.32-L caliber.
Best.
@mischo_watches
credit: bucherer
It's very pretty.
Despite not minding the baguette at 8pm, I don't necessarily 'get' the choice....
Neither do I, but I don't dislike it either, even if I would like to see how it looks in person.
I'm afraid it might look a bit gimmicky.
I like it but I prefer mine...😉
And I don't care for diamonds even if just one piece.
Yours is wonderful indeed and it's white gold,
which is, for me, far more suited to such a high-end and lovely watch and complication (just my personal taste of course).
Yes, I don't dislike it but would like to see it in real life because
I'm just afraid it might look a little gimmicky.
I really like the
sonnerie au passage complication. Even better than the minute repeater for me, as I don’t see how one can use that complication outside the house without being gauche and inside the house it can be very tiring very quick. The sonnerie au passage complication also seems useful to me to make one acknowledge that another hour has gone by, there is a kind of romantic side to the complication too, don’t see much downside at using it outside the house either. I would like to own a watch with this complication one day, haven’t seen one that sang to me yet though, hopefully in the future they’ll produce one for me too.
I couldn’t agree more with you say about
the romantic side to this complication. And I would add that the jump hour complication of the Quattro Spirit 25 has a very similar charm: the hourly shutter-like click of the instant jumping hour disk, which is discreet but clearly audible whenever in a quiet environment, lets you know that a new hour is beginning. And, as the movement has hacking seconds and is COSC certified, it’s very impressive to hear the jump almost exactly spot on every time (I live near a church whose bell rings every hour and the jumping hour disk of my watch can be almost perfectly synchronized to it). I love that.
Must be such a lovely feeling.
I have that in a lesser fashion in my 5212a, though only once in a day and not in a strictly accurate way. The change of the date disc has a very audible sound so sometimes if I’m not asleep and with the watch on my wrist in a quiet room, I can distinctly hear the sound of a new day at midnight ( generally with zero to three minute delay, it varies ) which is quite cool but not as cool as your quattro spirit or as a sonnerie au passage. It makes me happy though.
The 5212 is such a nice watch, with great complication,
which is very well designed with the months and weeks together. I like it a lot.
Thanks!
It’s cool to hear it, especially coming from you as I know you are not shy about expressing which watches you personally do not like.