Chopard L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual

Sky High: Chopard’s L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual & L.U.C Lunar One are Heavenly

Chopard once again proves that complications don’t have to clutter a dial to be impressive.

By Rhonda Riche
Editor-At-Large

Feeling overwhelmed and overstimulated these days? If you answered yes, you certainly don’t need a watch with a dizzying display. This is especially true because a super complicated watch has the power to provide the kind of calming fidget spinner-type vibe some people need to help them focus.

Fortunately for all of them (and us!), Chopard has just added three new timepieces to the L.U.C collection that fit this bill perfectly.

First, the L.U.C Lunar One models represent an aesthetic change for the family with a thinner, curved and sleeker stick-shaped case. Next, the L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual marks the first time that the Maison combines a flying tourbillon and a perpetual calendar in a single watch.

And third, don't miss Ash's video review of the L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual Calendar exclusively from the Chopard Manufacture.
 

L.U.C Lunar One

Introduced in 2005, the L.U.C Lunar One is the Maison’s first watch with a “calendar and astronomy” complication and is still its only timepiece kitted out with a precision orbital moonphase display featuring a rotating window. So, to mark the 20th anniversary of this auspicious watch, Chopard has given it a new birthday suit.
 

The 40.5mm-diameter case in ethical 18-karat gold with its fluted crown and slightly domed sapphire crystal is inspired by 19th-century pocket watches. Likewise, the hand-guilloché dial is a delightful display of the brand’s artisanal expertise.

It also feels quite modern thanks to its slimmer Bassine (the base is narrower than its domed, polished bezel) shape, legible indications, and an interchangeable strap system to switch out straps without tools.
 

These aesthetic upgrades all serve to celebrate the mechanical self-winding L.U.C Calibre 96.13-L with a perpetual calendar and astronomical moon-phase function. It also indicates the date, day, month, and leap years.

Another poetic complication is an additional 24-hour scale in which a star rotates around the small seconds axis. This orbit-like rotation represents the sky as it is seen from the Northern Hemisphere with the Big Dipper and the Southern Hemisphere with the Southern Cross.
 

Chopard claims that this mechanism can guarantee a degree of accuracy of a single day’s difference in 122-year indications. For daily time telling, this movement is a COSC-certified chronometer.
 

This combination of haute horology and high-quality finishing of these two L.U.C Lunar One models has also earned them Poinçon de Genève recognition. Finally, there are two models in this 2025 edition: one with a sunburst guilloché pattern dial and the other with a salmon pink face.

L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual

If the Lunar One honors Chopard’s past, the L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual and its L.U.C Calibre 96.36-L movement represents a new milestone for the manufacture.
 

This novel movement marries a flying tourbillon and a perpetual calendar with a large date display. And while it houses big horological innovations, the architecture of this 6mm-thick movement – which includes a micro-rotor and two stacked barrels – embodies the feeling of lightness that a flying tourbillon should have. It’s like watching an aerialist defy gravity!
 

The tourbillon is not the only dreamy element of the Flying T Twin Perpetual. There are also the gear trains, which will ensure that this Flying T’s perpetual calendar won’t require correction until March 1st, 2100, due to the Gregorian calendar math that we will let future generations worry about. After all, the whole point of a watch like the Flying T Twin Perpetual is to leave the wearer unbothered.
 

In the absence of an upper bridge, the flying tourbillon of the L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual timepiece allows for unobstructed views of this magical movement. It has been fitted with a stop-second function so that the time can be set to the exact second. Plus, the two stacked barrels of Chopard’s Twin technology provide enough energy for a 65-hour power reserve.
 

Like the Lunar One, the Flying T is COSC chronometer-certified and has been recognized for its fine finishing with a Poinçon de Genève recognition. All this excellence is surrounded by a 40.5mm, ethical 18-karat yellow gold with a slender, bassiné profile. The forest green dial in hand-guilloché gold is another knockout and its interchangeable strap system lets you dress it up as you see fit.
 

The Chopard L.U.C Flying T Twin Perpetual lists for $184,000. Meanwhile, the L.U.C Lunar One in rose gold and white gold retails for $85,800. For more, including more pricing information and availability, check out the Chopard website.

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