Czapek has collaborated with Bernard Lederer on a pair of watches with double escapements keeping almost perfect time.
Master watchmaker Mr Lederer is best-known for his Central Impulse Chronometer with its double-wheel, dual-impulse escapement that is recreated and forms the focal point for the Czapek Complicite watches.
The two 41.8mm watches, one with a blue skeletonised dial in a rose gold case, the other in hues of grey in a white gold case, adopt the look of Czapek’s Quai des Bergues and Place Vendome watches, but replace subdials at 4.30 and 7.30 with the paired balance wheels.
A power reserve is placed between them at the bottom of the dial, which exposes the wheels and gears of the new in house Calibre 8 manually wound movement with 72 hour power reserve.
It has a glass box sapphire crystal that visually widens the dial up to a slim bezel.
The underside is more utilitarian with a sand blasted finish given to the Germanic-styled hand-wound movement.
Only 50 of each style are being made, priced at just over £92,000.
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