Czapek & Cie returns with new watch model

By

Obi Anyanwu

Published
Nov 13, 2015

Czapek & Cie, a longtime watchmaker with a history that dates back to the nineteenth century, has been revived and is launching with a new watch.

The launch watch is a complication watch that runs on a manually wound proprietary movement with a seven-day power reserve. The company produced only 250 watch models for the first year and raised CHF 500,000 in Spring 2015 in order to deliver the first watches by this October.
 
“Every watch lover's dream is to feel the excitement of owning a brand,” says team spokesman Xavier de Roquemaurel, “and thanks to the traditional subscription system combined with modern crowdfunding possibilities, we can now fulfil that dream.”

Entrepreneurs Henry Guhl, Xavier de Roquemaurel and a watchmaker who wishes to remain anonymous, revived the Swiss watch company in 2013. Françios Czapek, a Czech-born, Polish watchmaker, first founded the company in 1832. In 1839, he founded Patek, Czapek & Cie with Antoni Patek. At the end of their partnership in 1845, he founded Czapek & Cie.
 
“Czapek deserves to be revived, he was one of the great watchmakers of the nineteenth century, who brilliantly combined precision mechanics with extremely refined aesthetics,” says de Roquemaurel.