Geneva Watch Days is in full swing, marking the return of in-person watch fairs to Swiss soil. This is a big deal for a whole host of reasons. It signals a light at the end of our long pandemic tunnel, for one, and is a testing ground for a new trade show ecosystem, which was once the centerpiece of the watch industry itself. To illustrate just how much the trade show landscape has transformed since 2019, consider that Baselworld, once the undisputed king of the shows, is actually happening right now as a popup event within Geneva Watch Days. A sign of the times, to be sure. Geneva Watch Days also means, obviously, a whole bunch of new watches, and while many of the higher end luxury brands exhibiting this week aren?t exactly in the Worn & Wound wheelhouse, a handful of releases have caught our attention and are just too cool not to share. Exhibit A: the Antarctique Rattrapante by Czapek & Cie. 
Czapek is a relatively new brand (they launched in 2015) and over the last few years have released a series of watches that seem to have one foot in time honored Swiss watchmaking tradition, and the other in something quite a bit more adventurous. The Antarctique collection debuted last year, and marked the brand?s entry into the ultra competitive world of integrated bracelet steel sports watches. Honestly, they pose a pretty enticing alternative to the usual suspects if you like the look, largely because they?re presumably a bit more available than the perpetuall...