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.

The smoky gray, brass champlevé dial for the main time display has a black enamel outer ring and two arrow-shaped hands in white gold, replacing the Fleur de Lys hands of previous Place Vendôme models, and treated with Super-Luminova One more subtle display of functionality is the semicircular power reserve display, artfully integrated into the 12 o'clock subdial Inside the case, and visible through a sapphire caseback, is the proprietary, manual-wind movement, Caliber SXH2, which Czapek developed with the complications specialists at Chronode SA.

It ticks at a frequency of 21,600 vph and amasses a 60-hour power reserve in a single mainspring barrel Delivered on an alligator strap with a titanium buckle, and strictly limited to 25 pieces, the Czapek Place Vendome Ombres will will be among the new and exciting timepieces on display from the 36 luxury watchmakers attending this year's WatchTime New York. . Source