Chopard Revives its Classic Regulator with the New L.U.C 1963 Heritage Regulator
Chopard has released the L.U.C 1963 Heritage Regulator, a 40mm watch featuring a manual-winding movement with a 9-day power reserve. The timepiece is a limited edition of 25 pieces and highlights the brand's focus on traditional watchmaking precision.
Why it matters
This release represents a shift in luxury watch trends toward more manageable case sizes while maintaining high-end technical specifications.
Precision regulator clocks, with their distinctive display isolating the minutes, hours and seconds, were once used as reference standards in watchmaking workshops and observatories. Chopard unveiled its first regulator wristwatch in 2006, followed by the large 43mm 2015 L.U.C Regulator with its dominant seconds indication on the periphery indicated by a central hand accompanied by hours in a sub-dial at 3 o’clock, seconds at 6 o’clock, a 24-hour GMT function at 9 o’clock and an arched power reserve display at noon.
The new regulator has been downsized to a more manageable 40mm diameter coupled with a height of 10.3mm. The case, in 18k ethical white gold, combines a satin-brushed caseband with a polished bezel and caseback and features a pusher on the left case flank to advance the GMT hand.
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