Chopard Launches Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition Watch Review

Chopard Launches Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition Watch Review

Chopard Launches Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition Watch Review

Chopard has released its latest limited-edition timepiece 

Dedicated to Italy’s Mille Miglia classic vehicle rally, that it's been official timekeeper since 1988. The brand new Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition, a stainless-steel chronograph restricted to 1,000 pieces, was one of the notable Chopard watches displayed only at that week’s Couture watch and jewellery fair in the Wynn Vegas.

The Chopard Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition

Chopard Launches Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition Watch Review

Whose look is affected by the look codes from the classic cars that competed within the Mille Miglia race between 1927 and 1940, includes a large, 46-mm-diameter steel situation, which makes it among the largest chronograph wristwatches Chopard has ever created. It features two traditional chronograph pushers, a fluted crown, along with a satin-brushed black dial with wide Arabic numerals and luminescent hands. The central chronograph sweep-seconds hands stands is within a very contrasting vibrant red. The date seems inside a window between 4 and 5 o’clock.

The dial is bordered with a tachymeter scale, another functional nod to endurance racing, and displays the chronograph readouts on snailed anthracite and black subdials (chronograph hrs at 9 o’clock, chronograph minutes at 3 o’clock, and running seconds at 6 o’clock) which are similar to instruments on automobile dashboards. The “Rossa Corsa” red-arrow-formed Mille Miglia emblem seems both at 12 o’clock around the dial and round the rim from the exhibition caseback. The dauphine-style hour and minute hands and also the applied hour numerals are colored with Super-LumiNova. The situation is water-resistant against 50 meters and it has glare-proof treatment around the azure crystals.

Similar to the vintage roadsters within the race it celebrates

Chopard Launches Mille Miglia 2016 XL Race Edition Watch Review

The timepiece is outfitted having a high-precision “engine'” namely the COSC chronometer-certified Chopard Caliber 03.05-C (back and front, below), that was entirely developed, designed and put together in Chopard’s Swiss manufacture. An analog, self-winding movement outfitted having a column wheel they are driving the chronograph functions, it beats in a frequency of 28,800 vph while offering an appropriate 60 hrs of power reserve.

Inside a final mention of the classic racing, the Chopard  is equipped having a finely weathered strap in “Suportlo” calfskin, an extremely water-resistant and supple material that emulates the leather tie-lower straps around the bonnet of the racing vehicle. The timepiece features a stainless-steel folding clasp.