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A friendship between Czapek’s CEO and an independent watchmaker gave the Place Vendôme Complicité its double escapement, now dressed in platinum and ice blue.

Czapek’s engineers reversed an entire escapement so that a skeletonised calibre could be read from the front, through a dial made of sapphire rather than metal.

Chronoswiss drew the Opus Dakar Sundown from the last golden light over the desert, pairing steel with 18ct red gold and a sand-coloured strap.

Czapek developed its Cosmic Blue for the first Antarctique Tourbillon, then chose to wait, keeping it to unite three Antarctique models in titanium.

At La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton, every internal angle of the new calibre DR002SR is finished by hand, because no machine can produce it.

The One Week Skeleton Rose Gold is a tribute to the skeletonisation work of Armin Strom, who founded the company in 1967.

Three specialist workshops built the dial of Czapek’s newest Antarctique cell by cell, so that daylight passes through blue enamel to the movement beneath.

The Chronoswiss Opus, the skeleton chronograph first made in 1995, turns 30, and the Opus Dakar takes it into the colours of the desert.

Revolution’s 20th anniversary sent founder Wei Koh back to the Czapek watch he had admired since 2023, and this time he helped remake it.

Claude Greisler, master watchmaker at Armin Strom, has pushed further into a philosophy the brand's founder set decades ago: showing the movement, not hiding it.

Ulysse Nardin builds the Diver [AIR] from recycled titanium, fishing-net fabric and upcycled carbon fibre, calling it the lightest mechanical dive watch it has ever made.

PRJKT8 and Parmigiani Fleurier reworked the Tonda PF Skeleton together, replacing its usual palette with flamed graphite blue, in a run of 8.