CHOPARD MILLE MIGLIA GRAN TURISMO XL 44mm WHITE DIAL BLACK TIRE TRACK STRAPS

This is a stainless-steel Chopard Mille Miglia Gran Turismo XL Power Reserve Chronometer includes rubber straps with a stainless-steel deployment buckle and a scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It has a signed screw down winding crown with a crown guard and there is an exhibition sapphire display case back secured with screws that are engraved with "MILLE MIGLIA GT XL - CHOPARD - 100M/330FT, " and a serial number. The 44mm diameter round two-body solid case, gently curved lugs, and convex bezel, are polished.

The dial is white with applied "boat" shaped hour markers with a large Arabic numeral at 12 o'clock surrounded by a red pip minute/second scale. It has fat pointed baton hour and minute hands with luminous fill and a center sweep second hand with a red triangular indicator tip.

There is a white rehaut around the perimeter with "speedometer" style Arabic numerals every five seconds to 60, and it has an oval "dashboard" style "full & empty" power reserve gauge at 6 o'clock. A circular date aperture with a magnification lens is at 3 o'clock adjacent to the red "1000 MIGLIA" label.

It's rhodium plated with Cotes de Geneve embellishment and it's constructed with 24 jewel, a shock absorber system, and a monometallic balance. It includes a self-compensating flat balance spring and the mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4Hz). A little history, Chopard became the event sponsor of the Mille Miglia race in 1988 and introduced the Mille Miglia Gran Turismo XL Power Reserve Chronometer in the 2000's.

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