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Czapek & Cie is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its rebirth and the 180th year of its founding. On the occasion, the maison has unveiled a timepiece that pays homage to its past and looks forward to its future - the Time Jumper is a reinterpretation of the pocket watches conceived by François Czapek in the 19th century, now transformed into a futuristic, avant-garde wristwatch. Offered in steel and 3N 18K gold, the limited edition Time Jumper introduces a new in-house automatic Calibre 10.1, which bridges Czapek’s heritage with innovation.
Measuring 40.5 mm, the stainless steel or gold case features a retro-futuristic ‘flying saucer’ architecture, crafted by AB Concept, a Hong Kong-based design studio. This pebble-shaped case, with a rounded crown and Sallaz-polished lugs, has soft curves and an aerodynamic silhouette, with its defining feature being a half-hunter cover, which conceals and reveals the time. The cover outshines with a new three-dimensional guilloché pattern developed with Czapek’s longtime partner Metalem, a Swiss-based dial maker with guilloché as one of its specialisations. Expanding from the centre to the periphery of the case, this artwork creates the illusion of a black hole, its hypnotic depth drawing the eye to the central loupe that magnifies the hour aperture beneath. When opened through the oval pusher at 6 o’clock, the cover reveals a full view of the open-worked movement. The watch is protected by a box-shaped sapphire crystal on both sides with anti-reflective coating and offers 30 metres of water resistance.
At the heart of the Time Jumper lies a unique patent-pending jumping hour complication, which operates on a 24-hour register. Hours are displayed on two transparent sapphire discs - one for single digits and one for tens - while the minutes are shown on a rotating peripheral ring, featured in blue laser-textured sapphire. The discs are coated with Super-LumiNova, allowing legibility in low light.
Driving this layout is the new Calibre 10.1, a self-winding movement entirely made in-house, with 75% of components machined internally. The movement features a recycled 950 platinum central rotor, skeletonized in the shape of a geometry compass, allowing an unobstructed view of the architecture beneath. The calibre beats at 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) and provides a 60-hour power reserve from a single barrel. It is finished with sandblasted and circular-brushed rhodium-plated bridges, black-polished springs, and diamond-bevelled wheels.
Completing the look, the Time Jumper is paired with a blue rubber strap, fitted with a stainless steel or yellow gold pin buckle. Each piece comes presented in an aluminium flying-saucer-shaped box.
Limited to 100 pieces in steel and 30 in gold, the Time Jumper is marked at approx. INR 46,45,000 for the steel version and approx. INR 70,80,000 for the gold model.
Czapek & Cie is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its rebirth and the 180th year of its founding. On the occasion, the maison has unveiled a timepiece that pays homage to its past and looks forward to its future - the Time Jumper is a reinterpretation of the pocket watches conceived by François Czapek in the 19th century, now transformed into a futuristic, avant-garde wristwatch. Offered in steel and 3N 18K gold, the limited edition Time Jumper introduces a new in-house automatic Calibre 10.1, which bridges Czapek’s heritage with innovation.
Measuring 40.5 mm, the stainless steel or gold case features a retro-futuristic ‘flying saucer’ architecture, crafted by AB Concept, a Hong Kong-based design studio. This pebble-shaped case, with a rounded crown and Sallaz-polished lugs, has soft curves and an aerodynamic silhouette, with its defining feature being a half-hunter cover, which conceals and reveals the time. The cover outshines with a new three-dimensional guilloché pattern developed with Czapek’s longtime partner Metalem, a Swiss-based dial maker with guilloché as one of its specialisations. Expanding from the centre to the periphery of the case, this artwork creates the illusion of a black hole, its hypnotic depth drawing the eye to the central loupe that magnifies the hour aperture beneath. When opened through the oval pusher at 6 o’clock, the cover reveals a full view of the open-worked movement. The watch is protected by a box-shaped sapphire crystal on both sides with anti-reflective coating and offers 30 metres of water resistance.
At the heart of the Time Jumper lies a unique patent-pending jumping hour complication, which operates on a 24-hour register. Hours are displayed on two transparent sapphire discs - one for single digits and one for tens - while the minutes are shown on a rotating peripheral ring, featured in blue laser-textured sapphire. The discs are coated with Super-LumiNova, allowing legibility in low light.
Driving this layout is the new Calibre 10.1, a self-winding movement entirely made in-house, with 75% of components machined internally. The movement features a recycled 950 platinum central rotor, skeletonized in the shape of a geometry compass, allowing an unobstructed view of the architecture beneath. The calibre beats at 4 Hz (28,800 vibrations per hour) and provides a 60-hour power reserve from a single barrel. It is finished with sandblasted and circular-brushed rhodium-plated bridges, black-polished springs, and diamond-bevelled wheels.
Completing the look, the Time Jumper is paired with a blue rubber strap, fitted with a stainless steel or yellow gold pin buckle. Each piece comes presented in an aluminium flying-saucer-shaped box.
Limited to 100 pieces in steel and 30 in gold, the Time Jumper is marked at approx. INR 46,45,000 for the steel version and approx. INR 70,80,000 for the gold model.
