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Czapek is a prestigious watch brand known for its exquisite craftsmanship and rich heritage, offering timepieces that blend traditional techniques with modern innovation. The brand is celebrated for its elegant designs and high-quality materials, appealing to watch enthusiasts and collectors worldwide.
Czapek & Cie is a revived Swiss watch brand with roots dating to 1845, when François Czapek — a Polish-Bohemian watchmaker — co-founded a watchmaking partnership with Patek Philippe before they parted ways. The modern Czapek was relaunched in Geneva in 2015 by a group of independent investors and collectors, using the historic name to ground a new brand in the classical Genevan watchmaking tradition. Their watches are positioned as accessible alternatives to ultra-luxury Swiss houses.
Czapek occupies an interesting market position — offering genuine Swiss manufacture content, classical dial aesthetics, and quality finishing at price points (roughly CHF 5,000-20,000) significantly below Patek Philippe or Vacheron Constantin. Their Place Vendôme collection features guilloché dials and in-house manufacture movements, while the Antarctique collection targets sport watch enthusiasts. The brand is also notable for their crowdfunding origins and transparency-oriented community engagement.
Czapek developed the SXH3 in-house manufacture movement in collaboration with Chronode, featuring a 7-day power reserve, peripheral rotor winding (allowing full movement visibility through the caseback without a central rotor), and quality finishing with bevelled bridges and côtes de Genève decoration. The peripheral rotor is a key technical and aesthetic feature — it allows the movement to be viewed fully while maintaining efficient automatic winding, which is technically more challenging than central rotor designs.
