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Friday, January 25, 2013

Costliest, World-Most Expensive Chopard Watch: 201 Carats at $25 Million

Summary: The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch has 201 carats for $25 million since 2000 and a role on Elementary episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Chopard's $25 million, 201 carat luxury watch lends its fame as the world's most expensive watch to Elementary tv series' Leviathan episode (season 1 episode 10): tmco @timemerchantco, via Twitter Oct. 23, 2012

The costliest Chopard watch and the world-most expensive watch are one and the same in the first-year episode The Leviathan in the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) television series Elementary Dec. 13, 2012.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny bring up only the carats and price for the costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch. They configure no images and no information other than a total of 201 carats in diamonds and of $25 million in cost to the Chopard customer. They do not divulge which division, whether ladies' wristwatches under Chopard co-president Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele or men's wristwatches under Chopard co-president Karl-Friedrich Scheufele, designed the diamond-decorated watch.

Online-imaged examples exhibit in one all-color, top-viewed dimension the costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch never extracted for Elementary enthusiasts from Joan Watson's (Lucy Liu) crime-scene box.

The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch features 201 carats in the form of 874 diamonds fit into flower and heart formations atop white and yellow gold.

One 11.36-carat D color (white) Flawless, 12.79-carat natural Fancy Blue VS2 and 15.37-carat natural Fancy Pink Internally Flawless heart-shaped diamond trio goes over the watch face. Twenty-six natural Fancy Intense Yellow pear-shaped, 48 natural Fancy Yellow round and 91 D color Flawless pear-shaped diamonds respectively have 17.07, 8.81 and 10.29 total carats. The fine gemmery, jewelry, timepiece collection wristwatch includes 60.94 carats as 260 white Flawless pear-shaped diamonds and 4.95 as 443 natural Fancy Intense Yellow FC diamonds.

A spring-loaded mechanism jumps the heart-shaped diamonds back, like opening petals, from the watch face, which juggles an 8.45-carat natural Fancy Intense Yellow pear-shaped diamond trio.

The second owners, Karl and Karin Scheufele, keep up, since 1963, Chopard family traditions of precision watchmaking since 1860 in Sonvilier and since 1937 in Geneva.

Paul-Louis Chopard (1859-1940), son of founder Louis-Ulysse Chopard (May 4, 1836-Jan. 30, 1915) and Laure Lida Marchand, launched the ladies' wristwatch division in Geneva in 1921. The Scheufele family maintains the ladies' accessory, fragrance, jewelry and wristwatch division under daughter Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele's co-presidency and the men's wristwatches under son Karl-Friedrich Scheufele's co-presidency. Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, in Chopard Maintains a Bold Outook for The New York Times April 17, 2009, noted Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele's co-presidency nurturing divisions beyond Chopard watchmaking traditions.

Gruosi-Scheufele observes that 60 percent of revenue from all Chopard product sales occurs in ladies' and men's wristwatch divisions and that jewelry divisions obtain 40 percent.

The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch perseveres in the fine gem, jewel and timepiece divisions where Gruosi-Scheufele, promotes Cannes Festival and Oscar ceremonial jewelry for stars.

The 150 animals that queued up in jewelry for 2010 qualify as special product lines that quantify 150 years of Chopard products in Switzerland since 1860. The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch realizes special status as the highest-priced wearable timepiece with the most high-grade diamonds, at an average of $27,777 per carat. Like Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in long-sleeved suits with John Varvatos boots, Joan selects minimal jewelry-friendly clothing, perhaps from sanctions against metal-wearing during surgery shifts.

The costliest, world-most expensive Chopard watch, outside Elementary, takes second-place behind Jaeger-LeCoultre's priceless Joaillerie 101 Manchette watch for Queen Elizabeth's 60th Diamond Jubilee Feb. 6, 2012.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) surprises Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) by joining her family dinner in CBS Elementary's Leviathan (season 1 episode 10): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Dec. 11, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/202391073219345

For further information:

"Chopard's History." Chopard > La Maison Chopard.
Available @ https://www.chopard.com/us/chopard-history/

Crouch, Christina. 2 December 2007. "$25 Million Dollar Watch from Chopard." SlashGear.
Available @ https://www.slashgear.com/25-million-dollar-watch-from-chopard-249184/

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661?msg=welcome_stranger

Elementary @CBSElementary. 11 December 2012. "Get ready to meet Watson's family in Thursday's all new Elementary: http://bit.ly/SOL9o9." Facebook.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/202391073219345

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

"15 Most Expensive Wristwatches That Costs [sic] over 1 Million Dollar [sic]." TiptopWatches > Watch Facts > Sep. 20, 2010.
Available @ http://www.tiptopwatches.com/watch-facts/15-most-expensive-wristwatches-over-1million.html

Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia. 17 April 2009. "Chopard Maintains a Bold Outlook." The New York Times > Global Business > Spotlight.
Available @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/business/global/18iht-spot18.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 18 January 2013. “Chopard Watch Worth $25 Million on Elementary Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/chopard-watch-worth-25-million-on.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 11 January 2013. “Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/claude-monet-painting-nympheas-1918-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 4 January 2013. “Paul Cézanne Still Life Painting Fruit in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-cezanne-still-life-painting-fruit.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2012. “Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-signac-painting-women-at-well-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2012. “The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-van-gogh-pieta-painting-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 14 December 2012. “Edward Hopper Painting Western Motel in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/edward-hopper-painting-western-motel-in.html

"Timeline." Chopard > La Maison Chopard.
Available @ https://www.chopard.com/intl/

Friday, January 18, 2013

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

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

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

"Chopard's History." Chopard > La Maison Chopard.
Available @ https://www.chopard.com/us/chopard-history/

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London England: George Newnes Ltd., 1892.
Available via Project Gutenberg @ http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661?msg=welcome_stranger

Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Dec. 13, 2012.

Marriner, Derdriu. 29 September 2012. "Are Lesser Clovers Sherlock's Lucky Shamrocks on Elementary's Pilot?" Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/09/are-lesser-clovers-sherlocks-lucky.html

Miller, Daniel. 19 January 2012. "The Woman Who Left £1M Emerald and Diamond Ring in Hotel Bathroom After Taking It Off to Wash Her Hands." Daily Mail > News.
Available @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2088423/Hong-Kong-police-hunt-1million-emerald-ring-owner-leaves-hotel-bathroom.html

Nikolas, Katerina. 19 January 2012. "Police hunt for €1 Million Emerald Millionairess Left in Bathroom." Digital Journal > News > World.
Available @ http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318128

Parry, Hazel. 18 January 2012. "Chopard Head Loses 1.5Million Dollar Ring." Sowetan Live > News > World.
Available @ https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/world/2012-01-18-chopard-head-loses-15million-dollar-ring/