Czapek & Cie. – ANTARCTIQUE Royal Onyx and Desert Rose Edition 2023
Antarctique Royal Onyx
Pure and precious in black and blue
Geneva, November 2023 - A limited edition dedicated to the United Arab Emirates and created in collaboration with Mansour Jewellers.
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The Antarctique Royal Onyx eloquently express two of Czapek & Cie’s fundamental values: the pursuit of beauty and the spirit of collaboration. At Czapek, every new edition is a co-creation with the company’s unique community of ‘rare people’ – the collectors, business partners and friends whose tastes and desires fuel the Maison’s creativity, together with the talented designers, craftsmen and production partners who bring the new ideas to life.
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“The Royal Onyx story began when the first edition of the Antarctique model was launched in 2020,” says Asma Bennani, General Manager of Mansour Jewellers, Czapek’s partner in the UAE. “True to Czapek’s open and collaborative style, we almost immediately began discussing the possibility of creating a special edition for the United Arab Emirates. The idea was to incorporate a feature celebrating the value and beauty of gemstones.”
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Emphasising the purity of the dial and the beauty of the gemstones, the Antarctique Royal Onyx does away with the complexity of a date display. Visually simple yet challenging to produce, due to the sapphire baguettes being invisibly set onto the onyx, the dial was crafted by GT Cadrans in Lonay, Switzerland.
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“The simplicity and chic modernity of the Antarctique provides a great playground for creativity,” says Xavier de Roquemaurel, CEO of Czapek. “Harnessing traditional crafts and materials and giving them a contemporary twist, as we have done for this piece, is absolutely in keeping with Czapek’s creative ethos.”
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In keeping with Czapek & Cie’s central tenet of balancing refined aesthetics with high-end mechanics, the Antarctique Royal Onyx is powered by calibre SXH5. The first movement to be entirely conceived and assembled in house by Czapek, it was launched in the original Antarctique in May 2020. Blending the best of past and present, its distinctive architecture of seven skeletonised bridges was inspired by the 19th-century pocket watches of François Czapek.
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The calibre features a free-sprung balance and an elegant and highly efficient micro-rotor of recycled 950 platinum; the haute horlogerie finishes combine hand-bevelled internal angles with state-of-the-art laser engraving to create a beautiful play of contrasts: light and dark, textured and smooth, matte and polished.
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Being unveiled at Dubai Watch Week in November 2023, the new Antarctique Royal Onyx and Antarctique Desert Rose will be available exclusively from Mansour Jewellers in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates.
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About Czapek & Cie
François
Czapek was a Czech-born Polish watchmaker who fled to Geneva in 1832
after fighting in the Polish uprising. He immediately started his own
atelier and in 1839 entered into a partnership with Antoine Norbert de
Patek, introducing him to the world of watchmaking. In 1845, at the end
of their partnership, he created Czapek & Cie and achieved
considerable success. He became the official watchmaker of Napoleon III
and opened, what was most likely the first watchmaking boutique on the
Place Vendome in Paris.
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He wrote a book about watchmaking, but
unfortunately, he died before publishing a second one. Czapek & Cie
has been revived in 2015 with an exceptional collection, whose leading
model won the Public Prize in the Grand Prix de l’Horlogerie in Geneva
in November 2016. This collection takes its inspiration from an 1850’s
Czapek time piece. It features a beautiful enamel dial and a 7-day
proprietary movement perfectly combining craftsmanship with design and
exclusivity with rarity. The Company second collection, a suspended
Tourbillon with a second time-zone, was launched one year later in 2017,
while the first Czapek chronograph Faubourg de Cracovie was unveiled at
Baselworld 2018. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Model: GARRICK – Antarctique Royal Onyx Edition
Steel case, Steel case, Onyx stone dial, Micro-rotor. New SXH5 automatic caliber.
Limited edition of 18 pieces
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- Calibre SXH5: Czapek's in house self-winding
mechanical movement
- Diameter: 30 mm – 13 lines ¼
- Height: 4.2 mm
- Number of parts: 193
- Jewels: 28
- Swiss lever escapement, variable-inertia balance
fitted with four gold inertia-blocks
- Frequency: 4 Hz – 28’800 VpH
- Power winding system: Micro rotor with an 18K
recycled gold mass
- Power-reserve > 56 hours on one single barrel
- Barrel torque: 8.8 Nmm
FINISH
Open ratchets, sandblasted black bridges,
bevelling, straight-grained sides, six hand-chamfered inward angles
FUNCTIONS
- Hours, Minutes & Seconds
CASE
- 40.5mm steel case
- Height: 10.6 mm
- Sapphire crystal glass-box with anti-reflective treatment
- Sapphire case back with anti-reflective treatment on the inner side
- Water resistance: 120m
- Screwed-down crown
DIAL
Polished Onyx stone dial
Blue Sapphire baguette hour markers
Steel seconds hand with blue tip
Steel skeletonized hours and minutes hands
BRACELET
- Integrated stainless steel bracelet with Czapek exclusive "Easy Release" system
- Additional calf leather or rubber strap
PRODUCTION
Steel ccase, Sandblasted Salmon dial with Oriental 12, Micro-rotor.
Limited edition of 25 pieces
MOVEMENT
- Calibre SXH5: Czapek's in house self-winding
mechanical movement
- Diameter: 30 mm – 13 lines ¼
- Height: 4.2 mm
- Number of parts: 193
- Jewels: 28
- Swiss lever escapement, variable-inertia balance
fitted with four gold inertia-blocks
- Frequency: 4 Hz – 28’800 VpH
- Power winding system: Micro rotor with an 18K
recycled gold mass
- Power-reserve > 56 hours on one single barrel
- Barrel torque: 8.8 Nmm
FINISH
Open ratchets, sandblasted black bridges,
bevelling, straight-grained sides, six hand-chamfered inward angles
FUNCTIONS
- Hours, Minutes & Seconds
- Date at 6 o'clock
CASE
- 40.5mm steel case
- Height: 10.6 mm
- Sapphire crystal glass-box with anti-reflective treatment
- Sapphire case back with anti-reflective treatment on the inner side
- Water resistance: 120m
- Screwed-down crown
DIAL
Sandblasted Salmon dial with Oriental 12
Luminescent, rhodium plated steel hour makers
Luminescent hours and minutes hands
Steel seconcs hand with red tip
BRACELET
- Integrated stainless steel bracelet with Czapek exclusive "Easy Release" system
- Additional calf leather or rubber strap
PRODUCTION
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Press Release - 2023
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Czapek & Cie – 2, Rue Saint-Léger, 1205 Genève Suisse
Contact presse: Valeria Garavaglia Pedroni
Email: valeria@czapek.com | jane@czapek.com (UK)
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