Chopard Alpine Eagle 2025 collection

Russell Sheldrake

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The Chopard Alpine Eagle assortment was launched in 2019, and within the continuing six years, the luxurious sports activities watch has taken on a lifetime of its personal. On this newest clutch of releases unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025, we’ve a primary within the assortment, an development in supplies, and an thrilling new tourbillon. Let’s get caught proper in.

Chopard Alpine Eagle 41 SL Cadence 8HF

Let’s begin with my favorite of the brand new Alpine Eagle releases, the 41 SL Cadence 8HF: the latest addition to Chopard’s vary of high-frequency watches. Not solely does this watch include the newest ultra-fast beating motion from the Swiss model, however it is usually the lightest Alpine Eagle they’ve ever created, with a case and motion made totally from ceramised titanium, making certain no gram goes to waste. We’ve seen this materials utilized by Chopard earlier than for watches just like the L.U.C Time Traveller One Black, however that is the primary time we’ve seen it used on an Alpine Eagle.

The case measures 41mm throughout and 9.75mm thick, and it has gained a hardness of 1,000 Vickers because of a course of oxidising the titanium utilizing electro-plasma know-how. This develops the watch’s anthracite gray color that’s carried throughout to the motion, which has been given the very same remedy, with as a lot of its elements as potential being made out of the identical grade 5 titanium.

This motion continues a protracted line of high-frequency calibres from Chopard and speaks to the benefits offered by the model’s vertical integration and its personal motion manufacture. Its in-house calibre 01.41C runs at a lightning fast 8Hz (double the velocity of a normal mechanical watch motion) but nonetheless achieves 60 hours of energy reserve. It may possibly do that because of the usage of monocrystalline silicon throughout the pallet lever, escape wheel and impulse pin.

Turning the watch over, the monochromatic dial retains the wealthy texture that the Alpine Eagle assortment has develop into recognized for however does away with any wealthy colors. Opting as a substitute for a deep black that’s matched by the shadowy utilized numerals and palms set, solely contrasted by the intense flashes of orange which have come to suggest Chopard’s excessive frequency vary. There’s a small tone-on-tone date window at 4:30 that has been pushed all the way in which to the sting of the dial. All of this excessive frequency and excessive tech materials will set you again a comparatively low quantity at US$25,000, however it’s restricted to 250 items.

Chopard Alpine Eagle 41 XP CS Platinum

Platinum is commonly considered the head of valuable metals, and it has lastly reached the Alpine Eagle assortment with the brand new 41 XP CS Platinum. Whereas it could seem at first look to be a normal mannequin simply forged in a brand new (and valuable) steel, there have been a few delicate design tweaks that make this really feel ever so barely extra refined than earlier variations.

To mark this mannequin out as being made out of platinum, Chopard has adopted its personal hand-engraved hallmark of a small bumblebee that may be discovered tucked simply beneath the left shoulder of the watch. This can be a image that the model has adopted for the reason that nineteenth century, figuring out with the insect’s hardworking and collaborative nature.

The dial is in a lightweight blue, a color that many within the watch world affiliate with platinum, with Chopard labelling their specific model of it “Shades of Ice”, persevering with the custom of giving dial colors names that hyperlink them again to the Alps (or often the Australian Outback). This Alpine Eagle’s dial is proven off much more right here because the bezel of the watch has been thinned down to essentially open up the shades of ice color, making this 41mm case really feel barely smaller than its true measurement.

Inside, we’ve an distinctive motion from Chopard’s L.U.C vary, the micro-rotor-utilising and Poinçon de Geneve-touting calibre 96.42 L, which ensures that this sports activities watch is ready to preserve tempo with the model’s highest-end actions.

Chopard Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon

The ultimate watch on this new assortment is available in the commonest of case metals however with one of many least widespread of actions: a tourbillon motion. The Alpine Eagle Flying Tourbillon comes encased within the model’s trademarked metal alloy, Lucent Metal, which is comprised of a minimum of 80% recycled supplies and offers this watch a stunning lustre with out the burden of a valuable steel.

The L.U.C 96.24-L makes its first look contained in the Alpine Eagle line, regardless of its signature complication, the flying tourbillon, having been part of the household since 2022. This classical complication creates an exquisite distinction with the trendy, sporty aesthetic that the Alpine Eagle has actually made its personal over its brief lifespan, letting this watch seamlessly transition from sports activities to decorate watch within the blink of an eye fixed.

This motion has additionally obtained Poinçon de Geneve certification, that means that the extent of ending on show by the sapphire caseback is of among the most interesting discovered within the metropolis of Geneva. Due to the thinness of the motion, the watch’s general thickness solely clocks in at 8mm, including to the stylish vibes this watch provides off.

To make sure that the flying tourbillon continues to soar for so long as potential, Chopard has constructed two barrels into the motion utilizing the model’s Twin know-how, which implies the barrels are mounted co-axially with out compromising the sveltness that’s attribute of this mannequin.

Closing ideas

Total, these three new additions to the Alpine Eagle push the gathering to new heights in watchmaking and materials makes use of. There isn’t any doubt in my thoughts that this household of built-in bracelet sports activities watches will proceed its sharp ascent by the model’s assortment and the notion of watch lovers world wide.