The new Czapek Promenade Diamond Drops

Czapek embraces the development for extra compact, unisex watch sizes and has clearly understood that the times when diamonds and gem stones have been thought-about solely female adornments are properly behind us. Launched in 2024, Czapek’s Promenade assortment is, in CEO Xavier de Roquemaurel’s phrases, “a canvas for inventive expression” with stunning dials that riff on the eccentric small seconds sub-dial. Introduced in compact 38mm instances and powered by the gorgeous in-house micro-rotor calibre, the brand new Promenade Diamond Drops continues to discover the theme of water drops. Impressed by the rippling impact created when a drop of water breaks the floor of calm water, the swirls on the dial are recreated with glistening diamonds and sapphires.

Just like the blue Grand Feu enamel Promenade “Goutte d’Eau” (waterdrop) mannequin, made for Czapek by dial specialist Donzé Cadran, the Promenade Diamond Drops picks up on the rippling sample that emanates from the off-centred small seconds sub-dial at 5 o’clock. Nevertheless, as a substitute of enamel, the dial is fantastically snow-set with a flurry of 679 round-cut diamonds and sapphires.

Designed to seize the glowing great thing about freshly fallen snow, the snow-setting approach requires nice ability as a result of each single gemstone, all of which differ in measurement, must be organized and set by hand. Much more natural and livelier than static claw-set diamonds in uniform rows, the snow-setting was carried out by AB Merchandise. Choosing 360 diamonds and 319 sapphires of various sizes, some lower than 0.5mm in diameter, the stones are positioned into tiny wells hollowed into the white gold dial base and set as shut as doable to at least one one other to create a blanket of scintillating magnificence. The gem-set dial took six days of labor to finish.

The blue whirlpool sample, created with completely different colored blue sapphires, originates within the small seconds counter and progressively will increase in measurement because it kinds elegant but naturalistic spirals throughout the dial.

The white gold case has a 38mm diameter and a comparatively lean top of 10.8mm. Requiring a further two days of labor, the white gold bezel, flange and crown are set with 173 brilliant-cut diamonds. The blued hour and minute palms are openworked, complemented by the shorter blued hand for the small seconds. Matching the sapphires, the watch is paired with a velvety blue calfskin strap.

A glass field sapphire crystal over the dial creates enjoyable distortions on the periphery. On the reverse aspect, you may admire Czapek’s SXH5.1 in-house automated calibre with its off-centred platinum a micro rotor and 7 bridges, 5 of that are openworked. It beats at 28,800vph and delivers a greater than respectable 60-hour energy reserve on one barrel.

Czapek’s Promenade Diamond Drops can be made to order with a most manufacturing of 10 items worldwide. Accessible by Czapek retailers worldwide and at czapek.com, the watch has a price ticket of CHF 82,000.