2025 marks the thirty eighth consecutive yr for Chopard because the World Sponsor and Official Timekeeper of what Enzo Ferrari described as “la corsa più bella del mondo,” the “Most Stunning Race In The World” — Mille Miglia. This time, Chopard returns with two new iterations on acquainted Mille Miglia fashions, the GTS and the Traditional Chronograph.
Chopard Co-President and avid Mille Miglia participant Karl-Friedrich Scheufele with racing legend Sir Stirling Moss on the 1996 Mille Miglia.
If you consider it, the Chopard Mille Miglia is one the only a few watch collections on the market as an example one’s ardour not (nicely, not simply) for watches however reasonably extra for vehicles. Even most the entire remainder of car-themed watches convey one’s ardour for a sure automotive model (like Porsche Design for Porsche, sure Hublots of previous for Ferrari, and so forth.), however these nicely and really into vehicles already know {that a} true automotive fanatic is rarely into only one model. And the Mille Miglia has grow to be a common software for individuals who wished to point their ardour for cars by the watch on their wrist. I got here to this realization on the 2019 Mille Miglia, the place I elaborate it on some extra, in addition to share what it’s like to drive (like your hair is on fire) on the Mille Miglia.
The 2025 Chopard Mille Miglia Traditional Chronograph Tribute to Sir Stirling Moss watch subsequent to historic tempo notes and itinerary gadget for the Mille Miglia.
The Chopard Mille Miglia Traditional Chronograph Tribute to Sir Stirling Moss is a watch identify so lengthy, you’d miss the race’s begin time should you have been to say it out loud earlier than beginning your engine. It nonetheless is without doubt one of the higher made luxurious chronographs, with a value to match, that we reviewed in its Jacky Ickx version final yr. This new model appears to proceed with the theme of race driver tributes — Sir Stirling Moss wants no introduction to anybody critically into motor racing.
Sir Moss wrote historical past as a Mercedes-Benz driver, his famed 722 (named after a race that started at 7:22 within the morning) 300 SLR having acquired its personal SLR tribute twenty years or so in the past. However I digress. The Mille Miglia Traditional Chronograph acquired a significant replace just lately as its case is now crafted from Chopard’s proprietary metal alloy, Lucent Metal — an alloy that, to my eyes and in my expertise, is the whitest, purest, and brightest glowing metal inside the business, a place it has held because it debuted within the Alpine Eagle assortment again in 2019. You actually need to see it to imagine it.
For way more on the alloy, in addition to on the Chopard Mille Miglia Traditional Chronograph, read our in-depth review of basically the identical watch from 2024. The “Tribute to Sir Stirling Moss” Chopard reference 168619-3012 measures a restrained and certainly traditional 40.5mm broad and 12.88mm thick. It’s matched to a period-correct “racing” strap with huge punched holes and a rugged texture, with tone-on-tone stitching and a Lucent Metal pin buckle.
The dial, produced in Chopard’s in-house dial manufacture, is in brass with a silver opaline end that remembers the matte-silver coloration of Moss’s successful Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, an icon of the “Silver Arrows” period. There are luminous hour markers, even at 3, 6, and 9 o’clock, to permit for night-time legibility — though I, for one, would like to see one other lumed dial from Chopard in opposition to which the chronograph palms and counters is also learn. That stated, when you’ve got ever worn watches with such polished palms (and faceted major palms), you’ll know that the faintest of sunshine is ample to select them out.
The caseback reveals an ETA base caliber with a well-known and a extra fashionable designation etched into the primary plate simply beneath the steadiness wheel: 2892 and A32211. The 2892 is amongst my favourite actions (I’d take a 2892 over a 7750 every time), because it measures simply 3.75mm thick, runs on 4Hz, and now has 54 hours of energy reserve (want it have been a weekend-lasting 60+, although). Chopard picked it in its highest specification, with loads of decorations, blue screws, and a COSC certification — which definitely received’t be sufficient to please those that would anticipate to obtain one of many model’s in-house chronograph calibers at this value level.
The opposite 2025 releases for the Mille Miglia assortment are, if I’m trustworthy, a lot nearer to my coronary heart: the Chopard Mille Miglia GTS Energy Management 2025 Race Version. Why? Two causes, primarily. First, it’s the watch that I contemplate to be a automotive fanatic’s selection. With that gas gauge energy reserve between 8 and 10 o’clock on the dial, the classic Dunlop tire sample strap (on this model it’s on the within of the strap, however Chopard nonetheless makes rubber straps which have it on the skin), the GTS identify, the general fashion, and the truth that I’ve encountered so many fellow petrolheads sporting one among these… All these make it the automotive look ahead to me. Second, this black and salmon model on that shiny strap seems like one heck of a spec.
Not like the chronograph, the Chopard Mille Miglia GTS Energy Management 2025 Race Version will get a correct in-house motion with the bonkers-looking Chopard 01.02-M. Impressed by the cooling veins and cutouts, in addition to the colour theme of high-performance automotive engines, the 01.02-M we noticed in lots of a car-themed Chopard watch through the years, however by no means this “entry degree” GTS — together with the wild, wild Superfast and Superfast Chrono. It’s a huge, 28.8mm broad motion that’s simply 4.95mm thick, runs on 4Hz with 60 hours of autonomy recharged with a big and closely openworked rotor. What’s fascinating is that I recall this motion having a silicon escape wheel at one level in its certainly “superfast” 8Hz model, however not right here. Nonetheless, that is motion is a large, huge improve for the MM GTS, and really a “lot of motion” for the value.
The caseback, should you ask me, is way nicer, too. Arguably excessive, however so is the engine bay of any correct efficiency automotive. The case measures 43mm broad, 11.43mm thick, is water-resistant to 100 meters (double that of the chronograph), and it’s now additionally crafted from Lucent Metal. The dial is galvanized to a salmon coloration and is circular-satin-finished. The palms and hour markers are stuffed with Grade X1 Tremendous-LumiNova tinted black — it’s best to anticipate these to look cool in opposition to the salmon in the course of the day, however with out the brilliant gentle present that you just get from lighter-colored SNL. The watch is connected to a perforated black calfskin strap with a tire tread lining in rubber that ought to assist lengthen its life.
The Chopard Mille Miglia GTS Energy Management 2025 Race Version watch is priced at $7,630 USD and is restricted to 250 individually numbered items, and the Chopard Mille Miglia Traditional Chronograph Tribute to Sir Stirling Moss watch is priced at $10,800 USD and is restricted to 70 individually numbered items. You can learn more at the brand’s website.
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