Promenade L’Écume des Jours

• Limited Edition: 18 pieces
• Case: stainless steel
• Size: 38 mm x 10.8 mm
• Movement: automatic-winding caliber SXH5.1 micro-rotor
• Function: Hours, minutes, small seconds at 4:30
• Power Reserve: approximately 60 hrs.
• Water Resistance: 50 m
• Dial: dial layered in blue enamel, mother-of pearl and jade, with a laser-cut titanium water lily seconds in miniature painting
• Caseback: sapphire crystal
• Strap/Bracelet: Nubuck leather strap in dark blue, Alternatively, Milanese mesh bracelet in stainless steel
• Factory Warranty: three years

Czapek & Cie introduces the Promenade L’Écume des Jours, a limited edition of 18 steel watches inspired by Boris Vian’s novel. Its dial brings the story’s music and water lily motifs to life, pairing a ring of piano keys with a titanium water lily seconds hand at 4:30.

Created with Donzé Cadrans and MD’Art, the dial combines blue enamel, mother-of-pearl and jade. Hand-painted black piano keys evoke the novel’s cocktail-composing pianocktail, while the miniature-painted water lily rotates above a laser-worked jade seconds track, blending literary imagination with intricate craftsmanship.

The 38mm stainless steel case houses the automatic Calibre SXH5.1, immediately recognisable by the seven skeletonised bridges  – inspired by the 19th-century pocket watches of François Czapek – the movement plates and bridges feature fine haute horlogerie finishes. Beating at 4Hz (28,800 vph) and wound by a micro rotor with a mass of 100% recycled platinum, SXH5 offers 60 hours of power reserve, with water resistance to 50 metres.

Supplied on a dark blue nubuck strap, with a Milanese mesh bracelet available as an alternative, each watch comes in a special-edition box containing the novel.