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Czapek showcases new collection at watches and wonders 2022

Czapek has showcased a wide variety of its new novelties at this year's Watches and Wonders, Geneva. The line up also includes its most popular additions - the Antarctique Passage de Drake Glacier Blue S and Antarctique Passage de Drake Salmon S.

Founded in 1845 in Geneva by François Czapek, the brand was revived in 2011 by Xavier de Roquemaurel, a luxury marketing consultant and watch lover, Harry Guhl an art expert, and Sébastien Follonier, a watchmaker, creating the first model - Czapek Chronograph that got launched in 2015. At this year's Watches and Wonders, Geneva, Czapek has released its new novelties which includes an updated variant of its most popular line - the Antarctique Passage de Drake in two variants - the Antarctique Passage de Drake Glacier Blue S and Antarctique Passage de Drake Salmon S.


“Our greatest challenge was that the original Antarctique had turned out to be so right. For Antarctique S it wasn’t a question of just reducing the case; we had to do something as excellent as the original,” says Xavier de Roquemarel, CEO of Czapek.

Czapek's new line up at 2022 Watches and Wonders, Geneva is as bright as its legacy showcasing some of the most eye-catching timnepieces like Frozen Star S, Purple Panda, California Blue, and Ice Blue.

Antarctique Passage de Drake

While the May 2020 launched Antarctique Passage De Drake Salmon, and Antarctique Passage De Drake Glacier Blue came with a 40.5mm case, the newly launched Antarctique Passage de Drake Glacier Blue S, Antarctique Passage de Drake Salmon S, and Antarctique Frozen Star S come with a smaller 38.5mm case.

Aesthetically the watches are similar to its elder 40.5mm sibling; the new variants are now flat. The collection comes with three dial options - Glacier blue, Salmon colour and a 38 piece limited edition crystallised Osmium dial.

The Antarctique S is powered by the in-house SXH5 caliber movement with 56 hours of power reserve, 4 Hz frequency and 8.8 Nm of barrel torque. The Hours, Minutes, Seconds watch come with a date window at 6 o'clock with a red tipped seconds hand with rhodium-plated steel hour markers. Both the case and the caseback get the sapphire crystal anti-reflective coating with a screwed-down crown. The lugs and the bracelet are integrated into each other as one whole unit. The glacier blue and salmon dial get flinqué dial while Frozen Star S get a dial made of crystallised Osmium - a rare precious metal. The watches are completed on a steel bracelet with Czapek with an "Easy Release" system and micro adjustment with an option of a rubber or leather strap. Both the watches come with a water resistancd of 120metres.

Also Read:Czapek's Antarctique Passage De Drake Now in Salmon and Glacier Blue 

Faubourg de Cracovie

This collection had two varied chronometres in the 41.5mm category, limited to just 18 pieces. The Purple Panda and the California Blue are a modern chronographs with hours, minutes and seconds function. The chronograph has a minutes sub-dial at 3 o'clock, seconds sub-dial at 6'clock along with a date window and hours sub-dial at 9 o'clock. Powering both watches is the calibre SXH3 movement with 65 hours of power reserve, 5Hz frequency with a golden rotor. Both the Purple Panda and California Blue come with sapphire crystal on the case and caseback.


While the Purple Panda get a Guilloché pattern dial in purple colour,barshaped hours markers and '12'as Arabic numeral with rhodium plated steel hands and an alligatoir strap with steel buckle.

The California Blue variant gives a vintage vibe with its Roman numeral '11' and '12' o'clocks combined with Arabic numeral. The watch comes with a dark blue electroplated dial with grene finish. This variant gets a rubber strap with a steel deploying buckle.

Antarctique Rattrapante

This variant called as the Ice Blue is an OpenWorked version and limited to just 99 pieces. The watch comes with two sub-dials - at 4:30 is the minutes sub-dial and 7:30 gets a small seconds window and a split seconds pusher 10:30. Czapek logo sits at 6 o'clock with sword shaped hours and minute hands and a full red seconds hand.

This 42.5mm limited edition watch is powered by calibre SXH6 movement with 60 hours of power reserve, 4Hz frequency with a rose gold rotor. The watch is completed on stainless steel bracelet with an 'Easy Release' system with an option of a leather or a rubber strap.

Images: Courtesy Czapek

 

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