Showing at WatchTime New York 2017: Czapek & Cie. Place Vendôme Tourbillon Suspendu
Calling all lovers of indie watch brands: Geneva-based Czapek & Cie, whose Quai des Bergues model won the Public Prize at the 2016 Geneva Grand Prix, will be among the sponsoring brands at October’s WatchTime New York event ? and guests there will be among the first to see the brand’s latest creation, the Czapek Place Vendôme Tourbillon Suspendu “Ici et Ailleurs.”
The Czapek Place Vendôme Tourbillon Suspendu has an unusual subdial layout, with a tourbillon at 7:30 and a second time zone at 4:30.
Czapek, which was founded in 2015, is a crowdfunding-supported brand named for François Czapek, a 19th-century Polish watchmaker who opened what is believed to be the first haute horlogerie boutique on France’s famed Place Vendôme ? hence the name of this new collection. The Tourbillon Suspendu, the first model in the Place Vendôme series, features the unconventional dial layout that defined the Quai des Bergues collection, with two subdials at 4:30 and 7:30, but here adds a third subdial at 12 o’clock to display the time. The subdial on the left displays the suspended cage of the one-minute tourbillon, while the one on the right hosts the “dragging” second-time-zone disk. Between the latter two subdials is a counterclockwise-rotating day-night disk; a power reserve display is artfully integrated into the 12 o’clock local-time subdial, which is made of grand feu enamel and has distinctive, blued fleur de lys hands sweepi...
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