Integrated-bracelet steel sports watch designs are becoming increasingly popular, and the latest brand to capitalize upon the trend is Geneva-based independent watchmaker Czapek & Cie. Later this year, the Swiss manufacture launches its latest limited-edition sport-luxury collection, dubbed the Antarctique, so named for the harsh and beautiful continent that inspired it ? and, according to the brand, already sold out.

The Antarctique, Czapek?s fourth collection, includes the more traditionally designed Antarctique Terre Adélie, as well as a hand-painted model called the Antarctique Orion Nebula. The new line is highly limited, and not only debuts a new luxury-sport design, but also showcases for the first time Czapek?s new, in-house, time-and -date automatic movement, Caliber SXH5.01.
Antarctique Terre Adélie

The Antarctique Terre Adélie is a classically designed, integrated steel sports watch with several unique flairs that set it appealingly outside the mainstream. The watch is named after the Terre Adélie (or Adélie Land in English), a French-claimed territory in Antarctica often used for scientific research.

The Terre Adélie offers four dial colors ? deep blue, burgundy, secret alloy (silver), and black ink ? and comes on an integrated steel bracelet with unique C-shaped links, along with additional matching calfskin and rubber straps. The new model is moderately sized and very thin, with a diameter of 40.5 mm and a height of 10.6 mm ? ...