Czapek & Cie Place Vendôme Complicité Stardust Cobalt

Czapek & Cie’s latest launch of the Place Vendôme Complicité Stardust Cobalt is an distinctive collaboration with famend watchmaker Bernhard Lederer—a coming collectively to reinvent the traditional’s Place Vendôme legacy. Limited to simply 13 items of the 100 comprising the primary version, this watch builds upon the popularity of the Complicité Stardust and Harmony Blue editions, which have been launched in August 2023. It includes a double escapement, epitomizing precision and reliability, showcased elegantly beneath a butterfly-shaped sapphire glass bridge on the 12 o’clock place—a signature ingredient that provides each attract and technical depth.

The watch retains the distinctive format of the unique Place Vendôme, with sub-dials forming a pyramid construction. The double escapement with a central differential creates a kinetic sculpture that’s visually beautiful. Powered by the manually wound Calibre 8, the watch affords a 72-hour energy reserve, seen on the dial via sapphire bridges. This design blends trendy and conventional parts, with detailed hand-finishing that features 18 manually chamfered inner angles and up to date decorations.

The Place Vendôme Complicité sequence is deeply rooted within the idea of établissage, or horizontal manufacturing. This method sees Czapek collaborating with high impartial specialists to create extraordinary watches, very like a conductor main an orchestra. Bernhard Lederer’s experience in escapements and his visionary method have considerably contributed to this assortment.

“At Czapek & Cie, we imagine within the enduring enchantment of outstanding craftsmanship and putting design,” stated Xavier de Roquemaurel, CEO of Czapek & Cie. “We are assured that with the newly carried out dazzling domed sapphire crystal, the Place Vendôme Complicité Stardust Cobalt represents the twist within the white gold mannequin that many had been ready for.”

The Stardust Cobalt version, crafted in white gold, options shimmering blued indexes and arms that distinction with the circular-grained gray minutes and hours observe. To present a clearer view of the dial-side mechanism, the glass-box of the unique assortment has been changed with a domed sapphire crystal. The Place Vendôme Complicité Stardust Cobalt might be out there via Czapek & Cie’s official boutiques and approved retailers worldwide, with the primary deliveries of the Complicité assortment having begun in July 2024.