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Antarctique Rattrapante - Tribute to Karel Čapek
$78,900.00
PURCHASE PROCESS
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Choose your preferred Czapek watch and options.
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Place your order; most watches are made on request.
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A ~30% deposit is required to confirm the order.
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You receive confirmation and must review it promptly.
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Manufacturing timing is communicated; delivery follows ~3–4 weeks after completion.
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Free cancellation within 14 days; partial refunds decrease over time.
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Final payment is due about 10 days before delivery.
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Delays may occur; long delays don’t guarantee full refunds.
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For US customers, all orders will be quoted and invoiced in USD. Your sale order includes shipping and all US federal taxes.
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Watches can be shipped worldwide or picked up in Switzerland.
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ONCE WERE ROBOTS…
Will robots rule all our lives one day? Or will Czapek’s Rare People escape that fate? Might the answer be found in Czapek & Cie’s new Antarctique Rattrapante ‘R.U.R.’, where a robot adds a playful animation to the mechanics revealed beneath the grey-metallised sapphire dial? As the chronograph function is activated, the robot’s eyes change colour: press start, the eyes turn yellow (recalling Shrike in the movie Mortal Engines). Stop: they turn red. And on reset they turn blue.
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TRIBUTE TO KAREL ČAPEK
The Czapek team’s discovery that the word robot had been introduced to the wider world exactly a century earlier by another man called Čapek (with the Czech spelling), made the rattrapante-with-robot idea irresistible. A prominent Czech intellectual, Karel Čapek was deeply concerned about the scientific materialism that emerged in the early 20th century. His play, R.U.R. – Rossum’s Universal Robots, about mechanical men that were built to work on factory assembly lines but that rebel against their human masters, was a critique of the dehumanising potential of science and technology.
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