Czapek Antarctique Flying Tourbillon Glacier Blue

Explore the next generation of sporty, haute horology Reflecting Czapek’s unwavering pursuit of beauty, the purity of the mechanism became the main design driver for Calibre 9 – the new in-house movement powering this spectacular Antarctique Flying Tourbillon.

The fundamental principle was that the three key elements – tourbillon, gear train and barrel – should be revealed on the dial side, perfectly aligned on the vertical axis and appearing as airy and light as possible.

The open-worked flying tourbillon appears to hover between the main plate and dial, directly connected to the gear train, which floats in the centre of the dial beneath an extremely long and finely curved minutes bridge. The barrel dominates the upper section of the dial, floating in an aperture beneath an open-worked bridge.

Czapek has named the new dial pattern Singularité – from the astronomical term singularity, meaning those places in the universe where the standard laws of physics break down, making space and time infinite and undifferentiated – best exemplified by black holes.

The pattern may look deceptively simple but is very difficult to execute: unlike a classical guilloché pattern, in which the guillo