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CHANEL MONSIEUR SUPERLEGGERA BLEU EDITION
WOW Singapore
|Issue 84
Part of the family of watches made of Chanel's recently developed black-blue matt ceramic, which took five years of development and was unveiled at Watches and Wonders Geneva 2025, the 42mm Monsieur Superleggera Bleu Edition took design cues from motor sports, especially race-car speedometers, for the arrangement of its complications on the enigmatic black guillochÈ dial: a generous jumping-hour indication at 6 o'clock, retrograde minutes tracked on a 240-degree circular scale at the top, and a small seconds subcounter in between.
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The manual-winding Calibre 1, designed and developed by Chanel, consists of two barrels and off
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