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Czapek is on a roll with its new (2024) Promenade assortment, and the Promenade Goutte d’Eau was considered one of my favourite watches on the 2024 Watches & Wonders.
2024 Czapek Promenade Goutte d’Eau
It’s important to see the dial for your self to understand how three-dimensional the ripples look on the enamel dial; images don’t do it justice.
2024 Czapek Promenade Bleu Nuit
The limited-edition (30 items) Promenade Goutte d’Eau was launched with two different fashions with completely different dial colours (ivory and darkish blue) and completely different dial end, these had micro-engraved sunray traces.
2024 Czapek Promenade Ivoire
It’s tough to see by which a brand new assortment is headed after we solely had an information level on one launch (with three watches).
2025 Czapek Promenade Plissé Ivory
Nonetheless, with the brand new Promenade Plissé (plisse is French for ‘pleated’), it’s change into clearer that the Promenade assortment shall be centered on fascinating dials. No, greater than that, fascinating dials with completely new patterns and textures. These are classical watches with revolutionary dials – dials that draw the attention as a result of the nearer you get the extra is revealed.
Czapek Promenade Plissé White Pearl
The Plissé dial is the results of a complicated stamping course of giving the impression of cloth being pushed and bunched up by the sub-dial into pleats throughout the dial.
From the press launch:
Czapek & Cie introduces the Promenade Plissé, a brand new, fashion-inspired dial that performs with mild and shadow to create an intriguing phantasm of motion.
Launched at Watches and Wonders 2024, the Promenade assortment was born from the will to create a classy and really fashionable watch, as a canvas for inventive expression, not solely a timekeeping instrument.
Czapek Promenade Plissé Rose
Like many developments at Czapek, there was no straight line from the concept of making a brand new assortment to the outcome. Relatively, concepts morphed and developed from the preliminary intention of growing a ladies’s watch with a collector-quality mechanism to the will to make a classy and fashionable watch that might attraction to these with an eye fixed for type and appreciation of mechanical sophistication – no matter gender.
“We now have all the time believed that gender divisions in watchmaking are largely synthetic,” says Xavier de Roquemarel, CEO of Czapek & Cie. “Magnificence and creativity unite women and men; making an attractive watch can’t be decreased to a gender cut up. A gorgeous watch will please women and men equally, in the identical manner {that a} fantastically tailor-made smoking [tuxedo suit] seems to be equally great on women and men.”
Offered in a slim 38mm case, Promenade expresses a relaxed and quietly assured sophistication, injected with playfulness and joie de vivre. The signature of the Promenade dial is asymmetry: the designs radiate from the small seconds dial positioned at 4:30, producing a way of dynamic rigidity. In 2025 Czapek introduces a brand new dial – Plissé (pleats) – in three colours.
Czapek Promenade Plissé Ivory on the wrist
Promenade seems to be to trend as a body of reference – from Marilyn Monroe’s chic-and-sexy white pleated gown in The Seven-12 months Itch to Issey Miyake’s futuristic pleats (for women and men) and light-as-air silks that marry couture custom and excessive expertise, and Yves Saint Laurent’s eternally fashionable le smoking – created in 1966, the OC of androgynous type.
Czapek Promenade Plissé White Pearl on the wrist
Impressed by textiles, the Plissé dial is the results of a fancy stamping course of that gives the look of cloth being pushed apart by the burden of the sub-dial to bunch up into pleats throughout the dial. This creates an intriguing play of sunshine and shade and the phantasm of flowing, dance-like motion throughout the dial because the wearer strikes his or her wrist.
The brand new stamping method was developed in partnership with Czapek’s common collaborator, Metalem. An added problem in growing the Plissé dial was to combine the utilized indexes throughout the contours of the pleats.
Czapek Promenade Plissé Ivory
Plissé is introduced in three colours: Ivory, Pearl White and Rose, the latter outfitted with a Milanese mesh metal bracelet. Manufacturing of every colour shall be restricted to 18 items.
Permitting the ornament to take middle stage, the timekeeping indications are pared again to a minimal: fine, semi-skeletonized arrow-shaped fingers and utilized indexes with diamond-cut angles to reflect the sunshine.
Czapek Promenade Plissé Rose
A Smooth Case and a Subtle Calibre
The crucial for Promenade was that the 38mm case needs to be slim, which referred to as for a micro-rotor motion. Thus, Czapek translated the strengths of its in-house calibre SXH5 into this new identification, taking part in with its structure to attain the specified dial aesthetics.
The Promenade case is a contemporary evolution of Czapek’s icon – the unique Quai des Bergues mannequin – recognisable by the recessed and sand-blasted case sides, the curved crown safety, and a slim, rounded bezel.
Czapek Promenade Plissé Rose on the wrist
The Promenade Plissé shall be out there on the Maison’s official retailers worldwide, the Czapek boutique in Geneva, Switzerland, and at Czapek.com.
Deliveries will begin within the first quarter of 2026.
Czapek Promenade Plissé White Pearl
For extra info, please go to www.czapek.com/czapek-watches-collection-promenade
Fast info: Czapek Promenade Plissé
Indications: Hours, minutes, small seconds at 4:30 o’clock
Dial: stamped dial, galvanic therapy colour, utilized indexes, unique and registered flinqué ‘Plissé’
(pleated) sample • Created in collaboration with Metalem
Motion: in-house Czapek Caliber SXH5.1, self-winding mechanical motion with small seconds
Energy reserve: 60 hours
Case: stainless-steel
Dimensions: 38 mm diameter x 10.8 mm excessive
Water resistance: 50 meters
Strap/bracelet/buckle: Nubuck leather-based strap in gray (Pearl White), taupe (Ivory), or pink or gray (Rose), alternatively all fashions have the choice of Milanese mesh bracelet in stainless-steel
Limitation: Restricted version of 18 items in every of the three colours
Value: 16,000 Swiss francs (excluding taxes)
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