2023 Czapek Antarctique Passage de Drake Glacier Blue 38.5mm
Ref: Antarctique Passage de Drake Glacier Blue

Points of Mention

This watch is sold with its original Czapek box and paperwork. The watch comes paired with its brushed and polished 23.5mm Czapek stainless steel bracelet secured by a signed hidden double folding deployment clasp, all links included and its fitted 23.5mm blue rubber strap cut to fit a 7-inch wrist. The watch is from June 2023 and is sold in worn, but very very fair condition, likely worn a handful of times at most, as you can see from the photos. The watch comes with its Manufacturer's Warranty.

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The Watch

Here we have the stunning 2023 Czapek Antarctique Passage de Drake Glacier Blue with the angular 38.5mm expertly brushed and polished stainless steel case. Building on the success of their 2020 40.5mm Antarctique, the design team spent a year completely reengineering the case, the Drake Passage, named after the famous explorer Sir Francis Drake, is a vital connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, it lies between Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The brushed flanks have a polished bevel edge that leads the eye to the distinctive stylised “C” lugs, a nod to their name, with a lug-to-lug length of 42mm and a case thickness of 10.5mm giving the watch a comfortable fit. On the right side, elongated crown guards protect a signed screw-down crown. The stepped polished bezel holds a domed sapphire crystal ARDur anti-reflective coated above a mesmerising Glacier Blue dial finished in Czapek's signature stamped “flinqué”, ‘Stairway to Eternity,’ a three-dimensional pattern on a two-dimensional surface, that magically plays with the light as you rotate your wrist. An outer minute track surrounds applied “12” and chamfer-edged trapezoid indexes filled with lume marking the hours, at 6 o’clock we have a date window colour matched to the dial and steel sword hands filled with lume are complemented by a red sweeping second hand. At noon we have the applied Czapek motif completing this incredibly sophisticated timepiece. On the reverse a screw-down sapphire exhibition case back showcasing the beautifully decorated inhouse automatic Czapek Cal. SXH5.01, 28 jewels, beating at 28,800 beats per hour, made up of 193 components including skeletonised bridges, a micro-rotor made from 100% recycled Platinum, sandblast finished and laser engraved. The watch comes paired with its brushed and polished 23.5mm Czapek stainless steel bracelet secured by a signed hidden double folding deployment clasp, all links included and its fitted 23.5mm blue rubber strap cut to fit a 7-inch wrist, and this watch is sold with its original Czapek presentation box and paperwork.

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