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INTO THE VORTEX
When Czapek set out to create the Antarctique, it was imagined as a modern, sporty-chic watch — and as a platform that could keep evolving over time. From the start, it was meant to be revisited, reworked, and pushed in new directions.
“Our collectors are always asking what’s next for the Antarctique,” says CEO Xavier de Roquemaurel. “After the Rattrapante, we chose a less expected path: reinterpreting one of watchmaking’s oldest concepts, the tourbillon, in a more contemporary way. As always, the idea was to balance heritage with something forward-looking, and this new in-house tourbillon calibre is the result.”
Built around the form of the tourbillon itself, the movement features a more open architecture, with slender bridges that make the mechanics easy to see and appreciate. It’s paired with a dial that draws on traditional métiers d’art, reworked into a modern, vortex-style guilloché pattern that brings everything into motion.
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THE MECHANICS OF AESTHETICS: AN IMMUTABLE BOND
To highlight the movement rather than compete with it, Czapek worked once again with Metalem, a long-standing partner, to develop a new guilloché pattern. The idea was to create a trompe-l’œil effect that adds depth and movement, drawing the eye into the mechanics beneath.
The result is a swirling pattern that feels almost endless. Czapek calls it Singularité, a reference to the astronomical term “singularity” — places in the universe where normal rules no longer apply, such as black holes, and where space and time seem to stretch without limit.
Although it appears simple at first glance, the pattern is technically demanding to produce. Unlike traditional guilloché, where each line starts from a fixed point, Singularité shifts that point with every pass of the lathe, making the process far more complex and precise.
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