Chanel J12 Automatic Superleggera

Mart 10, 2009

Late Chanel artistic director Jacques Helleu personally shepherded the development of the J12 line of watches. The Superleggera?Italian for really, really lightweight?takes its name from a designation once given to featherweight Italian GT cars. Its remarkable lack of heft?it weighs 20 percent less than a standard J12?comes from the substitution of rock-hard anodized aluminum for [...]