Antarctique LA CARTE DES NUAGES STORMY GREY S

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About this reference

In keeping with the Czapek ethos, these new dials introduce atypical colours, intriguing textures and fascinating details. With a contemporary twist on traditional crafts and materials, and a new approach to texture, each dial has been designed to capture the light in a particular way, creating a sense of movement and vitality through a play of constantly changing colours. La ‘Carte des Nuages’ (literally, the Map of the Clouds) dial plays with the rich glow of white or grey mother-of-pearl, offsetting it with a glittering pair of ‘Antarctique cut’ diamonds marking 12, and a Princess cut diamond set at each of the 11 other hours. This ‘Antarctique cut’ of the elongated index markers is an entirely new diamond cut, registered as a proprietary Czapek cut. Etched into the surface, six fine guilloché gridlines anchor the composition, in a playfully modern take on the traditional craft of guillochage – with a subtle allusion to cartography. Taken from the central and most lustrous part of the oyster shell, the wafer-thin discs of mother-of-pearl used for these dials are rarely guilloché due to their fragility; to do so requires a highly specialised skill that only a few Maisons are able to source. Overview: Limited edition: 50 pieces; Reference (site code): CZ-6344; Collection: Antarctique; Listing status: Archive. Functions: 1.: Hours, Minutes & Seconds. Movement: 1.: Calibre SXH5: Czapek's in-house self-winding mechanical movement; 2.: Diameter: 30 mm – 13 lines ¼; 3.: Height: 4.2 mm; 4.: Number of parts: 193; 5.: Jewels: 28; 6.: Swiss lever escapement, variable-inertia balance fitted with four gold inertia-blocks; 7.: Frequency: 4 Hz – 28,800 VpH; 8.: Power winding system: micro rotor with a recycled platinum mass; 9.: Power-reserve: 60 hours on a single barrel; 10.: Barrel torque: 8.8 Nmm. Case: 1.: 38.5mm steel case; 2.: Height: 10.6 mm; 3.: Sapphire crystal glass-box with anti-reflective treatment; 4.: Sapphire case back with anti-reflective treatment on the inner side; 5.: Water resistance: 50m; 6.: Screwed-down crown; 7.: Diamonds set on the bezel, integrated lugs and winding crown (0.95 carat in total). Dial: 1.: Dial made of white mother-of-pearl with a gre