Chopard

Does anyone know the manual-wind movement in the 35mmx5mm Classique, ref. 163154?
thanks
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Our fearless moderator is travelling right now, so I make some attempt at this question.

This was an old line (Classique Homme) in the Chopard portfolio...although Chopard almost never "deletes" any references from their catalogue. This is very unwieldy for the dealers because each year the technical book becomes bigger and bigger

The Ref 16/3154 has scant information on the Internet as it was introduced way before watch-talk became common; even the original Thomas Mao discussion board (before the fancy term - blog - was invented) was only as recent as 1996. ThePuristS site was from 1999.

You will find various Internet citations like "ETA" movement or 'Frederic Piguet' movement.

Indeed, most of the outsourced mechanical movements for the older Chopard range were from F. Piguet, which happens to be an ETA group member now...so that is the source for the duality of names. Even the electro-mechanical movements for the Imperiale Chronograph were Frederic Piguet 1270.

You have a F. Piguet handwind movement but I canot recall the caliber number.

The other suppliers were JLC 888 or 889 bases with Dubois-Depraz perpetual calendar and chronograph modules and ETA 2892A2 or ETA 2894-2 and  with DD modules for Mille Miglia chronographs (depending on model year). As usual, there was an exception for the Mille Miglia Split Second Chronograph, which is a (renamed Jaquet) La Joux-Perret 8721 movement.

Regards,

MTF

Firstly, thank you MTF for the detail reply.

This Chopard men’s classic 1991 model and is currently available.
This model is one of the best-selling and still have orders pending delivery.
The movement is ETA 10,50 .


Kong

the only 10.5 ligne ETA I can find currently listed is the Perseux 7001, would that then be the movement?
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