Chopard

The Chopard Holding SA is a Swiss watch and jewelery manufacturer based in Geneva. The company was founded by Louis- Ulysse Chopard in Sonvilier in the Swiss Jura in 1860.

History

After a turbulent history is the long-established company since 1963 owned by the German Scheufele family. At that time acquired Karl Scheufele, a jeweler and watch manufacturer from Pforzheim, the company called Le Petit- fils de LU Chopard et Cie, Fabrique des Montres L.U.C. from the 80 -year-old Paul Andre Chopard. Today, the family is one with branches in Europe, Asia and North America 's most successful jewelery and watch manufacturers in the world. Chopard stands for high quality jewelery collections and exceptional watch, with much emphasis on manual labor and a very high production depth is determined.

The guided under the umbrella of the Chopard Holding SA group of companies employs about 1700 people and generated 2007 sales of 800 million Swiss francs.

Chopard as a watchmaker

The initials stand for LUC Louis- Ulysse Chopard. Since 1996, Chopard has his own watch manufactory in Fleurier where LUC watches are designed and manufactured. According to information from the Scheufele family pondered build back in the early 1990s, its own manufacturing facility for classic products in order to gain so in the " Haute Horlogerie " real legitimacy. Since 2007, the factory employs 108 people in 15 different professions. The 3000 annual production of LUC works that are developed and manufactured in the factory, all carrying the COSC certificate ( chronometer certificate ). COSC is Contrôle officiel suisse Chronometer, an independent, nonprofit organization that is not controlled by the Swiss government nor financially supported.