This Chopard Mille Miglia Gran Turismo XL Ref. 16/8514 has black inner bezel with 60-minute scale and a smooth fixed silver bezel. This Chopard Mille Miglia Gran Turismo XL also has a 24-hour dial on the inner track. This inner track has a globe motif in white. This Ref. 16/8514 features a red seconds hand with arrow-tip.
This Chopard Mille Miglia Ref. 16/8514 was designed with the racing spirit. The Mille Miglia series of Chopard watches are a diverse and revolutionary tribute to racing meant to high the wearer's status in any setting. The Chopard Mille Miglia was designed to commemorate Italy's famed Mille Miglia auto race. Chopard became a sponsor of the Mille Miglia, a 1000-mile open road endurance race that took place between 1927 and 1957. In 1988, Chopard teamed up with the Mille Miglia, an annual Italian rally where vintage and classic cars take part, to create special edition watches every year. This Ref. 16/8514 perfectly balances a high fashion sensibility with a precisely tuned timepiece for intense sporting lifestyles, synonymous with beauty and innovation.
Other reference number: 168514-3001 ; 168514

In 1988, Chopard teamed with the Mille Miglia as an official partner and began creating the annual special-edition Mille Miglia match, the automobile racing icon.
Chopard participates as the official sponsor in the annual "Mille Miglia". The Mille Miglia is a mythic race for car lovers. Having started in 1927 till 1957, it was a 1600 km long on asphalt race that followed the Brescia-Rome-Brescia trajectory. Even though this mythic and dangerous race was suspended for many years, it started again in 1977 with the most prestigious competition cars built during the years the race wasn't run. Lovers and collectors of stunning cars have come back to dream.

In 1860 Louis-Ullysse Chopard established a watch company in a small village, called Sonvilier in the Swiss Jura on the road that connected St. Imier with La Chaux-de-Fonds. In 1963 when Paul-Andre Chopard was forced to give up the family business since his sons had followed different careers and refused to manage the family business, Karl Scheufele, a goldsmith and watchmaker took over Chopard. The company got into a period in which, by also adding a jewellery segment, it was modernized by the new ideals of its new owner. In 1975, when moving to Meyring-Geneva, it started producing ladies and jewellery timepieces. Five years later, Chopard started producing sports watches on leather straps. In 1988, Chopard established the cooperation with the Mille Miglia and annual Italian rally. Since then, it has maintained the tradition of developing a new special edition of Mille Miglia timepiece every year.
Chopard also developed its own movement called LUC after Chopard's founder, Louis-Ullysse Chopard. The first LUC movement was the LUC 1.96, designed and created in Fleurier, close to Sonvilier. After 130 years, Chopard has maintained its glorious reputation according to manufacturing top quality gold watches.