CHOPARD, "Happy Sport" Collection, Reference 27/8250-23, Year 2000 Steel ladies' watch bracelet. Case: round (25mm), smooth domed bezel, attachments and winding crown set with cabochon sapphires, screw-down caseback, signed and numbered. Dial: white dial, navy blue enameled Roman numerals and minute track, five mobile brilliant-cut diamonds, blued steel sword hands, central second hand, signed. Movement: quartz. Bracelet and buckle: articulated rice-grain links and folding clasp in steel, signed. Enclosed: case, surboîte, certificate of origin and booklets. Wrist circumference: 17.5cm. (Slight scratches and slightly loose bracelet).

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