What irony it is, that, when transcribing our Zoom interview with Chopard L.U.C’s copresident Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, this scribe was struggling to hear his own questions due to his malfunctioning microphone. There was no such issue on Scheufele’s end, however. And certainly, no aural incompetency shall be tolerated when it comes to the L.U.C Manufacture’s new trio of chiming watches which commemorates the company’s 25th anniversary that Scheufele was keen to talk about.
While discussing the new pieces, Scheufele himself confesses that his brand’s first-ever chiming watch, the Full Strike from 2016, is his favourite technical achievement. “The watch provided a new dimension to what could be achieved with the minute repeater complication,” he says, referring to the Full Strike’s revolutionary use of gongs and the watch’s
