The Tribute model is a pocket-watch which can be transformed into a wristwatch in homage to Louis-Ulysse Chopard, who founded Chopard in 1860.

The Tribute is made of eighteen karat white gold with an alligator strap, only one hundred and fifty of the watches will be made to mark Chopard’s 150th birthday.

Chopard has just released their new tourbillon watch - to be presented at Basel World later this month - the Chopard L.U.C Engine One Tourbillon Watch.

This alligator, titanium and sapphire watch sports a gravity-defying tourbillon, front-and-center, with stunning aircraft-grade handiwork throughout its face.

Its tourbillon carries a 60 hour power reserve, its capacity displayed in a charge indicator atop the watch’s face.

The timepiece is to be made in an extremely limited series of just 150 pieces, that number being a commemorative nod to the 150th birthday of Chopard.

Luxury Swiss watch and jewellery maker Chopard has just taken a substantial order from Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The order was for 250 limited edition watches valued at around 8 million Swiss Francs ($7.5 million).

They should each have the likeness of Colonel Gaddafi on them in some form and were ordered to celebrate his 40th anniversary of being in office.

Chopard’s latest fragrance is named Cascade and takes its named from Chopard’s Haute Joaillerie collections of cascading diamonds.

Cascade is built around a central note of Belle de Nuit, a bloom that opens at night only and releases a captivating scent. Other notes include pink pepper, grapefruit, mandarin and orchid.

The cap modeled after the shape of a Cascade collection earring is a throw back to the Art Deco period orienting the perception of the flacon to be from the same era.

Jewellery worth more than 6m euros (£5m, $8m) has been stolen from an exclusive Paris store in broad daylight by a lone gunman, police sources say.

Dressed in a suit and fedora, the man entered Chopard on Place Vendome and reportedly made staff hand over 15 pieces of jewellery at gunpoint.

The heist, which took place in mid-afternoon, came after a gang of armed men stole gems worth 85m euros from jewellers Harry Winston in Paris in December.

Austrian director Michael Haneke won the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) for best picture at the Cannes film festival on Sunday for “The White Ribbon,” his eerie exploration of the roots of Nazi terror.

Since 1954, the award has been annually given to the Director of the best film presented at the festival.

The Palme d’or 2009 has been created by Chopard and it reminds of the coat of arms of the city of Cannes.