Place Vendôme COMPLICITÉ STARDUST COBALT

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The design of the Place Vendôme Complicité is as much the result of a chance encounter, a coincidence (do they really exist?), as it is a technical and artistic feat. Human encounters and the sharing of ideas lie at the heart of everything that Czapek does. As a fundamental value, the Maison defends the concept of établissage – the ecosystem of specialised workshops that once defined the entire watchmaking industry; this enables it to choose the most talented, independent specialists in each of the watchmaking crafts, bringing them together – as a conductor would unite musicians in an orchestra – to create exceptional timepieces. For Czapek, suppliers are also partners in creativity and this turned out to be decisive in Place Vendôme Complicité ever becoming a reality. The idea for the watch was born in 2018 as an evolution of Czapek’s renowned initial models, Quai des Bergues and Place Vendôme; the movement architecture of those pieces translates into a distinctive Czapek ‘face’ with sub-dials at the 7.30 and 4.30 positions on the dial. Overview: Reference (site code): 3901; Collection: Place Vendôme; Listing status: Watch Finder. Functions: 1.: Hours, minutes, seconds & power reserve indicator; 2.: MOVEMENT; 3.: Calibre 8 created in collaboration with Bernhard Lederer; 4.: Number of parts: 293; 5.: Open-work; 6.: Double escapement with differential gearing; 7.: and central second; 8.: Power-reserve: 72 hours; 9.: Frequency: 3Hz — 21,600 VpH; 10.: Two variable inertia balance wheels oscillating; 11.: in opposite directions, with four adjustment screws and four weights; 12.: Balance springs with Breguet terminal curves; 13.: Two sapphire bridges with six rubies set in gold chatons. Case: 1.: 18K white gold case with domed sapphire and sandblasted hollowed-out lugs; 2.: Crown protectors; 3.: Diameter: 41.8 mm; 4.: Lug to lug: 48.22 mm; 5.: Height with lugs: 14.8 mm; 6.: Height on wrist: 13.3 mm; 7.: Perceived height (without glass): 8.8 mm Sapphire domed glass with double anti- reflective treatment; 8.: Water-resistance: 50m (5 atm). Dial: 1.: Open-worked with double escapement on a ‘Grainé’ main plate with silver galvanic treatment Circular-grained minutes and h