For Watches and Wonders this year, Czapek & Cie. brings three new watches in its high-end sport-chic Antarctique line. However, all three are different models. There is an Antarctique Tourbillon Cosmic Blue (40.5 mm), an Antarctique Révélation Cosmic Blue (40.5 mm), and an Antarctique Dark Sector Cosmic Blue (38.5 mm).
The brand crafted all three watches in titanium because of its strength and light weight. The other similarity is the brand’s proprietary Cosmic blue colour, a specific shade of blue chosen for its depth and intensity.
“Colour – and the freedom to play with it in different ways – has always been a key part of our constant quest for new ways to express beauty,” says Xavier de Roquemaurel, CEO of Czapek & Cie. “We originally developed Cosmic Blue for the first iteration of the Antarctique Tourbillon but when we realised how beautifully it resonates with the exact tone of titanium, we decided to wait and use it as the unifying story for these three new pieces,” he added.
Czapek & Cie. Antarctique Tourbillon Cosmic Blue
The new Antarctique Tourbillon Cosmic Blue is equipped with the same Calibre 9 as the tourbillons released by the brand last year at Watches and Wonders. So the movement architecture is also the same - there’s slender bridges, which allows the tourbillon, gear train, and barrel to be revealed vertically on the face of the dial.
Contrasting the titanium body is the Cosmic blue dial decorated with a trompe l’oeil guilloché design called Singularité, made in partnership with Metalem. It’s a limited edition of 25 pieces.
Czapek & Cie. Antarctique Révélation Cosmic Blue
For the new Antarctique Révélation Cosmic Blue iteration, the Cosmic blue appears on the flange and on the ring of the small seconds located at 4:30. The dial fully skeletonised revealing the brand’s Calibre SXH7 caliber—a purpose-built, fully skeletonized automatic micro-rotor movement—launched in 2023.
The watch is available in two sizes 40.5 mm and 38.5 mm (Antarctique S). The bigger one will be produced in a batch of 50-piece limited production of up to 50 pieces per year while the other one will be produced in 25 pieces per year.
Antarctique Dark Sector Cosmic Blue
Released in 2023, the Antarctique Dark Sector was the first watch of the line to appear in titanium. This year, the brand revisits the model in the same metal once again with a contrasting Cosmic blue dial.
With the same automatic Calibre SXH5–-the brand’s first in-house Calibre, that boasts a power reserve of about 60 hours powers the watch. The sector-type dial design is also the same. There’s two concentric circles with voids between them marking the hours.
This timepiece is also available in two sizes: 40.5 mm, which is limited to 25 pieces and 38.5mm ‘S’ case, 38.5 mm version, which is limited to 10 pieces.
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