Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan

Summary: One thief extracts a Chopard watch and the Van Gogh Pietà, estimated at $25 million and at $50 million, in Elementary episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) can't believe that "I got on the subway with a Chopard watch" with "200 carats of diamonds" in a box as she assists Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in transporting recovered stolen art work and jewelry to Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) at the 11th Precinct.": Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 13, 2012

One Chopard watch and one Vincent van Gogh Pietà add $25 million and $50 million to estimated values of absconded coins and folios in Elementary series episode the Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny brandish no images of the Chopard watch in Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) loose-lidded box. Joan comments that "I can't believe I got on the subway with a Chopard watch" while Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) clutches a scrolled-up Van Gogh. Sherlock declares that "There are 200 carats of diamonds on that thing" and Joan decides that "I don't even want to know how much it costs."

Sherlock exempts himself from all orders and elaborates, "The watch is $25 million. The Pietà almost twice that, if recent auctions are anything to go by."

Peter Kent filched tetradrachm coins, Vincent van Gogh's (March 30, 183-July 29, 1890) painting Pietà ("Sorrow") and William Shakespeare's (April 23, 1564?-April 23, 1616) first folio.

Joan and Sherlock gather that the ailing philanthropist no longer goes out from the Kent Philanthropic Foundation as his criminal alter ego Le Chevalier ("The Cavalier"). Joan hands 11th Precinct Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) the boxed hoard even though Sherlock holds back the Pietà until he hauls in the Leviathan robbers. It is not up to viewers to imagine Greek money as coins and as cufflinks ideated by Peter Kent and identified by Sherlock in a photograph.

The Chopard watch juggles any number of bejeweled juxtapositions of gems, glass and metal into elegant, female- and male-specific, high-end, precise, signature, themed, timekeeping, wrist-worn jewelry.

Karl and Karin Scheufele kept the founding name when they purchased Chopard in 1963 from Paul-André Chopard, grandson of Louis-Ulysse Chopard (May 4, 1836-Jan. 30, 1915).

Paul-Louis located ladies wristwatches and pocket-watches from Sonvilier, where his father launched chronometers and pocket-watches in 1860, to Chaux-de-Fonds in 1921 and to Geneva in 1937. Scheufele, from Art Deco-modeled jewelry and timepiece family operations in Pforzheim, Germany, since 1904, made Meyrin operations center in 1974 and Fleurier manufacturing center in 1996. Daughter Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele and son Karl-Friedrich Scheufele netted the co-presidency while respectively directing ladies' accessories, fragrances, jewelry and wristwatches and mechanical movement manufacturing and men's wristwatches.

Chopard watch design and manufacturing offered the Happy Diamonds, Luna D'Oro calendar, Happy Sport and Mille Miglia ("Thousand Miles") collections in 1976, 1984, 1988 and 1993.

Montres Passion and Uhrenwelt magazines proclaimed the L.U.C 1860, first Chopard watch produced at the all-in-one manufacturing facility in Fleurier, watch of the year in 1997.

Precious-metaled, precious-stoned Cašmir and Pushkin, Imperiale, Ice Cube, Jacky Ickx and Haute Joaillerie and Horlogerie collections queued up in 1990, 1994, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2010. Chopard realized 100 stand-alone stores worldwide and €550 million ($731.5 million) in sales, of which €250 million ($332.5 million) from watches in 2010, its 150th anniversary.

Kent shared nothing of his schemes with his family even though it seems likely that the Chopard watch originally sparkled on a female family member's wrist. Perhaps a Chopard watch turns Joan and Sherlock toward tracking Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele's £1 million ($1.57 million) 16.83-carat emerald ring taken in Hong Kong Sep. 8, 2011.

Among stolen art work recovered by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) is a Chopard watch adorned with "200 carats of diamonds" and valued at "$25 million" in Elementary tv series Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in 2012, Chopard claimed creation of the world's most expensive watch, with 201 carats and valued at $25 million: tmco @timemerchantco, via Twitter Oct. 23, 2012

Acknowledgment

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Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) can't believe that "I got on the subway with a Chopard watch" with "200 carats of diamonds" in a box as she assists Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in transporting recovered stolen art work and jewelry to Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) at the 11th Precinct.: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 13, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/202943863164066

Among stolen art work recovered by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) is a Chopard watch adorned with "200 carats of diamonds" and valued at "$25 million" in Elementary tv series Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in 2012, Chopard claimed creation of the world's most expensive watch, with 201 carats and valued at $25 million: tmco @timemerchantco, via Twitter Oct. 23, 2012, @ https://twitter.com/timemerchantco/status/260854869001375744

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