KARL-FRIEDRICH SCHEUFELE OUGHT to be raring to see what 2023 brings. In Singapore late last year for a whirlwind week of meetings that culminated in a gala dinner, the genial 64-year-old co-president of Chopard exuded quiet contentment, buoyed possibly by jubilant news from his company's watchmaking divisions.
The weekend earlier in Geneva, he had attended the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (the Academy Awards equivalent of watch shows) and walked away with the Mechanical Exception prize for the FB 2RSM.2-1 by Ferdinand Berthoud, a brand he relaunched in 2016. It was
