Chiming watches, from repeaters, sonneries and watches that play melodies, have long been one of the most desirable – and complex – features to accomplish in a watch. Some brands, though, excel at the ...

Most watches that chime do so in a hushed whisper. But when I heard the Chopard L.U.C Grand Strike for the first time in Geneva last week, its chime cut right through the room to where I was sitting ...

For more than a quarter century, Chopard’s L.U.C collection has stood as the purest expression of the maison’s mechanical soul — a space where traditional watchmaking is not simply preserved but ...

If there’s one common saying that sums up the genre of chiming watches, it’s this: There’s levels to this. In other words, there are multiple types of chiming watches — mechanical watches that use a ...

A grand sonnerie, petite sonnerie, and minute repeater with proprietary sapphire crystal gongs plus a tourbillon, stop-seconds function, and COSC and Poinçon de Genève certifications comprise ...