Antarctique Passage de Drake Salmon S

• Case: stainless steel, Screwed-down crown
• Size: 38.5 mm x 10.6 mm
• Movement: Calibre SXH5 with platinum micro-rotor: Czapek’s in house self-winding mechanical movement
• Function: Hours, Minutes & Seconds • Date at 6 o’clock
• Power Reserve: approximately 56 hours
• Water Resistance: 120 m
• Dial: Stamped "Flinqué" Salmon dial with exclusive, officially registered "Stairway to Eternity" pattern
• Caseback: sapphire crystal
• Hands: Luminescent, steel “Sword” hands • Luminescent, rhodium plated steel hour markers
• Strap/Bracelet: Integrated stainless steel bracelet with Czapek exclusive “Easy Release” system and micro adjustment device • Additional calf leather or rubber strap

The Passage de Drake. Named after the English explorer Sir Francis Drake, the Drake Passage connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between Cape Horn (the southernmost point of South American) and the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic. The stormy seas and icy conditions make it one of the most challenging places to navigate and sailors say to prepare yourself for an experience somewhere between bad and terrifying!

The Antarctic Passage de Drake collection takes the sport-chic case design of the Antarctic Terre Adélie line and pairs it with an atypical trapezoid dial motif whose three-dimensional stamped surface creates a play of shadows across the dial.  “This unique dial design is called the ‘Stairway to Eternity’”.

The SXH5.01 automatic caliber is the first to be entirely conceived in-house by Czapek . Every part of it has been made with care to detail and with the help of the top Swiss manufacturing partners and craftsmen, la crème de la crème, the magnificent orchestra directed by Czapek. The microrotor, is placed off-center to allow a plunging view into the mechanism and its exceptional architecture. A free-sprung balance wheel with variable inertia provided by four gold adjustable weights enables the highest level of precision tuning. The gear train is held in place by a series of seven handsome skeletonized bridges. Their original shape is reminiscent of lace, inspired on one side by XIX century pocket watches, and by the very modern Czapek Faubourg de Cracovie chronograph’s rotor. The movement has superlative finishing on the bridges that merges ‘haute horlogerie’ angling techniques with state-ot-the-art laser engravings.


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