When every Goutte d’Eau found a buyer at Watches and Wonders 2024, Czapek CEO Xavier de Roquemaurel began imagining water in other forms: dew, snow, ice.
Czapek today introduces the Promenade Diamond Drops, a gem-set sequel to the Goutte d’Eau, its dial reinterpreted in diamonds and sapphires with the snow-setting technique.
The whole dial is snow-set with 679 diamonds and sapphires, many so small they are set stone by stone into individually sized wells. The ripple pattern of the original Goutte d’Eau still reads through, in blue against white. Diamonds also cover the bezel, flange and crown, and the case is 38mm white gold.
“This invited us to play not only with design, colour and materials but also the craft of gem-setting, asking ourselves how we could express the original idea in new ways,” says Xavier de Roquemaurel, CEO of Czapek & Cie. The gem-setter AB Products set each stone by hand, sized to its own tiny well.
The result covers almost the whole dial in stone, with barely a trace of the white gold beneath.
The Basics
- Brand Czapek
- Model Promenade Diamond Drops
- Diameter 38mm
- Thickness 10.8mm
- Case material 18k white gold; bezel, flange and crown set with 173 diamonds (≈1.63 carats)
- Dial 18k white gold, snow-set with 679 diamonds and sapphires (≈3.08 carats: 360 diamonds, 1.5 cts; 319 sapphires in shades of blue, 1.58 cts), reinterpreting the Goutte d’Eau ripple from the off-centred small seconds; set by AB Products; blued hands
- Water resistance 5 atm
- Strap Sapphire-blue calf leather
- Limited edition Made to order, up to 10 pieces
The Movement
- Calibre SXH5.1, in-house, automatic
- Functions Hours, minutes, small seconds at 4:30
- Winding Automatic, micro-rotor in recycled platinum
- Power reserve 60 hours
- Frequency 4Hz (28,800 vph)
- Jewels 26
Images courtesy of Czapek.
