Chopard first began thinking
link about a project to become a true movement manufacturer in the 1980s, shortly after Karl-Fred Scheufele joined his father at the company. Louis-Ulysse Chopard had founded his watchmaking company in
link Sonvilier, Switzerland, so Scheufele decided
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