The Czapek Promenade With A Plissé Dial

Final 12 months, Czapek launched the brand new Promenade assortment. Its design combines influences from the model’s Quai des Bergues and Antarctique traces. Aside from the hollowed-out lugs and mid-case, the watches look fairly traditional. Nevertheless, the peculiar dial designs are the actual stars of the Promenade assortment. The identical goes for the newly launched Promenade Plissé, which comes with a textile-inspired dial design.

At Fratello, we’re massive followers of Czapek’s Promenade. Final December, we offered our limited-edition model, the Promenade Transparencies Viridian Inexperienced. That watch has a clear and gradient inexperienced dial by which you’ll see Czapek’s SXH7 micro-rotor motion. On the Promenade Plissé, you’ll be able to solely see the motion by the exhibition case again. Fortunately, the stamped dial with its distinct texture is really price your whereas. Let’s take a fast look.

The Czapek Promenade Plissé

Like the opposite watches within the Promenade assortment, the Plissé has a 38mm chrome steel case. That measurement consists of the refined crown guards on the aspect. The thickness, together with the domed sapphire crystal, is just below 11mm. Lastly, the lugs span solely 42mm from tip to tip. This implies the Promenade suits all kinds of wrist sizes fairly nicely. You may select to get it on both a nubuck leather-based strap or a chrome steel Milanese mesh bracelet.

Then we get to the star of right this moment’s present, the textured plissé (which means “pleated”) dial. It’s fabricated from brass, which is then stamped to provide it its refined folded sample. The pearl-white, ivory, and pink colours consequence from a galvanic remedy. Whereas the plissé texture is certainly paying homage to the pleats in some clothes, it additionally jogs my memory of an undulating dune panorama, particularly on the ivory model. The feel properly embraces the azurage-finished sub-seconds dial. Metalem, Czapek’s companion, helped develop this new dial texture. An excellent utility of the diamond-cut hour markers was particularly difficult to realize.

The again aspect of the Promenade Goutte d’Eau

Platinum micro-rotor inside

The brand new Czapek Promenade Plissé is powered by the corporate’s SXH5.1 motion. It is a self-winding caliber with a platinum micro-rotor. It runs at a frequency of 28,800vph, options 26 jewels, and holds an influence reserve of 60 hours. When you look by the case again’s sapphire window, you’ll see sandblasted black bridges, beveling, and hand-polished chamfers. The development of the Promenade makes the watch water resistant to 50 meters.

Preliminary impressions

I haven’t seen the brand new Czapek Promenade Plissé in particular person but, so I can solely think about the way it displays the sunshine whenever you transfer your wrist round. However with the elegant waves on the dial, I reckon it’s a shiny magnificence on the wrist. My favourite is the ivory model because it jogs my memory of a refined zen sand backyard. As well as, I believe I’d go for the Milanese bracelet as a result of it makes the Promenade really feel a bit much less formal.

The Czapek Promenade Plissé goes on sale right this moment for CHF 16,000 (excluding VAT). As talked about, the dials can be found in ivory, pearl white, and pink. Solely 18 items will likely be made of every dial colour, and deliveries will begin within the first quarter of 2026.

Let me know within the feedback under what you consider the brand new Czapek Promenade with a plissé dial.

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