Chopard first began thinking about a project to become a true movement manufacturer in the 1980s, shortly after Karl-Fred
link Scheufele joined his father at the
link company. Louis-Ulysse Chopard had founded his watchmaking company in Sonvilier, Switzerland, so Scheufele decided to
link return home, building Chopard Manufacture about 40 miles from Sonvilier, in Fleurier.