CZAPEK | Events - Watches & Wonders 2025 products presentation

CEO Xavier de Roquemaurel presents the new Antarctique Tourbillon collection, marking the beginning of the 10th anniversary year since the revival of Czapek. This coincides with the 180th anniversary of the namesake watchmaking Maison founded in 1845 by François Czapek, whose spirit continues to guide the company today. The Antarctique Tourbillon is powered by the in-house Calibre 9. Reflecting Czapek’s unwavering pursuit of Beauty, the purity of the mechanism became the main design driver for the new in-house movement, Czapek Calibre 9. The fundamental principle in the development of this movement was that that the three key elements – tourbillon, gear train and barrel – should be revealed on the dial side, perfectly aligned on the vertical axis and appearing as airy and light as possible. The open-worked flying tourbillon appears to hover between the main plate and dial, directly connected to the gear train, which floats in the centre of the dial beneath an extremely long and finely curved minutes bridge. The barrel dominates the upper section of the dial, floating in an aperture beneath an open-worked bridge. The new dial pattern, named Singularité – from the astronomical term singularity, meaning those places in the universe where the standard laws of physics break down, making space and time infinite and undifferentiated – may look deceptively simple but is very difficult to execute: unlike a classicalguilloché pattern, in which the guillocheur cuts lines at differen