The Happy Sport's defining technical element is also its most visible: seven brilliant-cut diamonds enclosed in individual capsules between two layers of sapphire crystal, free to spin above the dial with every movement of the wearer's wrist. The choreography is never the same twice — the diamonds respond to the wearer's particular rhythm, her particular day, her particular pace through the world. The case is now produced in Lucent Steel — a proprietary alloy developed over four years of research, composed of at least 80% recycled materials, 50% harder than conventional steel, antiallergenic, and luminous in a way that gives it what Chopard describes as an ethereal incandescence. Available in 30mm and 36mm, with quartz and in-house automatic movements, in stainless steel, rose gold, and precious metal configurations. The black lacquered version — released in 2024 — paired the black dial with an onyx-set crown, the dancing diamonds now spinning against darkness rather than light.

The Happy Diamonds Icons watches are the most direct translation of the 1976 invention into watchmaking — round cases in which the dancing diamond principle governs the entire dial space rather than appearing as seven stones above it. Available in yellow, white, and rose gold with varying numbers of free-moving diamonds and colored stone combinations. The collection bridges the space between the Happy Sport's sporty accessibility and the L'Heure du Diamant's jeweled precision — a piece that belongs equally to watchmaking and jewelry, that could sit alongside either in a collection, and that does not require a choice between the two. The diamonds move. Everything else is architecture for their movement.

L'Heure du Diamant — the diamond hour — is the collection in which Chopard's gem-setting expertise is pushed to its absolute limit: diamond-encrusted cases, dials, and bezels in which the prong-setting technique creates a density of brilliance that allows no metal to be visible between stones. At Watches & Wonders 2024, the collection introduced an octagonal case form for the first time in its history — a 32mm octagon in ethical gold with mother-of-pearl or malachite dials, the diamonds set in a unique crown technique that encircles the dial. The in-house Chopard 09.01-C movement powers the piece behind a transparent caseback. L'Heure du Diamant is not a watch with diamonds on it. It is a diamond object that contains a watch.

The Imperiale collection is Chopard's most architecturally elaborate women's watch — its signature four-sided flower motif, drawn from traditional royal embroidery and arabesque ornamentation, applied to cases and bracelets in ethical gold with diamonds, amethysts, and pink quartz. The bracelet's high-tech gold wirework is one of the most technically demanding elements in the house's production — supple enough to conform to the wrist like fabric, precise enough to maintain its geometric pattern across hundreds of individual gold elements. Powered by the Chopard 96.17-C movement with 65 hours of power reserve, visible through a transparent caseback. "Irrepressibly feminine," in the house's own description. Dedicated to "modern-day empresses whose noble, majestic beauty is rivalled only by their conquering spirit." Imperiale is the collection that takes that ambition seriously.

The 2024 Happy Sport novelties demonstrated the collection's continuing formal appetite — thirty years after its invention, still finding new registers within the same design logic. The all-black version — in two sizes, 30mm and 36mm with date — paired a black lacquered dial with rose gold accents and an onyx-set crown, the dancing diamonds spinning against darkness rather than the traditional silver or mother-of-pearl surface. A limited 33mm edition in radiant blue featured dancing aquamarines rather than diamonds — colored stones substituted for the classic whites, the movement principle unchanged, the effect entirely different. The little black dress of the Happy Sport family. The something blue. The same seven capsules, the same sapphire crystal, the same choreography — a new mood each season.

In 1998, Chopard became the official partner of the Cannes International Film Festival — and Caroline Scheufele was asked to redesign the iconic Palme d'Or trophy itself, which she has produced in ethical gold since 2021. The partnership has made Chopard's women's watches among the most photographed on red carpets worldwide, worn by the actresses who carry the Palme d'Or, by the women who present awards, by the creative directors who attend the screenings. The Happy Sport and L'Heure du Diamant have appeared at Cannes every year for over two decades — always on the wrists of women who understand that a watch designed to be worn twenty-four hours a day, from the gym to the gala, is exactly the watch for a film festival that begins at dawn and ends at three in the morning.