Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Czapek Place Vendôme Ombres
Geneva-based Czapek is a crowdfunding-supported brand named for François Czapek, a 19th-century Polish watchmaker who opened what is believed to be the first high-end watch boutique on France?s famed Place Vendôme. Czapek’s Place Vendôme collection pays tribute to that history, and the newest addition to the haute-de-gamme series, the Place Vendôme Ombres, will be front and center among the brand’s highlight timepieces at the annual WatchTime New York collectors’ event in October.
The unconventional dial layout of the Place Vendôme features an off-centered hours and minutes display on a subdial at 12 o’clock, two subdials at 4:30 and 7:30 ? the former hosting a GMT function on a ?dragging? second-time-zone disk, the latter, the suspended cage of the one-minute tourbillon ? and a subtle day-night indicator at 6 o’clock that rotates, like the GMT disk, counterclockwise. Framing the whole ensemble is the movement’s exposed, anthracite-colored, sandblasted plate with steel sandblasted bridges. (“Ombres” ? French for “shadows” ? likely refers to the watch’s array of gray tones.) The Czapek Place Vendôme Ombres is the first in the series with a titanium case.
The Ombres version of the watch, which debuted this year along with the platinum-cased, diamond-set Etincelles, uses a grade 5 titanium case measuring 43.5 mm in diameter. The smoky gray, brass champlevé dial for the main time display has a black ena...
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