For Chopard, it all started in 1994 in a leased room behind a blue door in an ETA production facility in Fleurier, Switzerland. There, a team of eight began work on what
link would become the Caliber 1.96. From the start, Scheufele made it clear he was
link not interested in producing just an average automatic workhorse. He demanded something that would put his in-house watches on the map, even among
link the most discriminating collectors, like him.