Czapek is on a roll with its new (2024) Promenade collection, and the Promenade Goutte d’Eau was one of my favorite watches at the 2024 Watches & Wonders.

2024 Czapek Promenade Goutte d’Eau

You have to see the dial for yourself to appreciate how three-dimensional the ripples look on the enamel dial; photos don’t do it justice.

2024 Czapek Promenade Bleu Nuit

The limited-edition (30 pieces) Promenade Goutte d’Eau was launched with two other models with different dial colors (ivory and dark blue) and different dial finish, these had micro-engraved sunray lines.

2024 Czapek Promenade Ivoire

It’s difficult to see in which a new collection is headed when we only had a data point on one launch (with three watches).

2025 Czapek Promenade Plissé Ivory

However, with the new Promenade Plissé (plisse is French for ‘pleated’), it’s become clearer that the Promenade collection will be focused on interesting dials. No, more than that, interesting dials with totally new patterns and textures. These are classical watches with innovative dials – dials that draw the eye because the closer you get the more is revealed.

Czapek Promenade Plissé White Pearl

The Plissé dial is the result of a sophisticated stamping process giving the impression of fabric being pushed and bunched up by the sub-dial into pleats across the dial. 

From the press release:

Czapek & Cie introduces the Promenade Plissé, a new, fashion-inspired dial that plays with light and shadow to create an intriguing illusion of movement.

Launched at Watches and Wonders 2024, the Promenade collection was born from the desire to create a chic and truly modern watch, as a canvas for creative expression, not solely a timekeeping instrument.

Czapek Promenade Plissé Rose

Like many developments at Czapek, there was no straight line from the idea of creating a new collection to the result. Rather, ideas morphed and evolved from the initial intention of developing a women’s watch with a collector-quality mechanism to the desire to make a chic and modern watch that would appeal to those with an eye for style and appreciation of mechanical sophistication – regardless of gender.

“We have always believed that gender divisions in watchmaking are largely artificial,” says Xavier de Roquemarel, CEO of Czapek & Cie. “Beauty and creativity unite men and women; making a beautiful watch cannot be reduced to a gender split. A beautiful watch will please men and women equally, in the same way that a beautifully tailored smoking [tuxedo suit] looks equally wonderful on men and women.”

Presented in a slim 38mm case, Promenade expresses a relaxed and quietly confident sophistication, injected with playfulness and joie de vivre. The signature of the Promenade dial is asymmetry: the designs radiate from the small seconds dial placed at 4:30, producing a sense of dynamic tension. In 2025 Czapek introduces a new dial – Plissé (pleats) – in three colors.

Czapek Promenade Plissé Ivory on the wrist

Promenade looks to fashion as a frame of reference – from Marilyn Monroe’s chic-and-sexy white pleated dress in The Seven-Year Itch to Issey Miyake’s futuristic pleats (for men and women) and light-as-air silks that marry couture tradition and high technology, and Yves Saint Laurent’s eternally modern le smoking – created in 1966, the OC of androgynous style.

Czapek Promenade Plissé White Pearl on the wrist

Inspired by textiles, the Plissé dial is the result of a complex stamping process that gives the impression of fabric being pushed aside by the weight of the sub-dial to bunch up into pleats across the dial. This creates an intriguing play of light and shade and the illusion of flowing, dance-like movement across the dial as the wearer moves his or her wrist.

The new stamping technique was developed in partnership with Czapek’s regular collaborator, Metalem. An added challenge in developing the Plissé dial was to integrate the applied indexes within the contours of the pleats.

Czapek Promenade Plissé Ivory

Plissé is presented in three colors: Ivory, Pearl White and Rose, the latter equipped with a Milanese mesh steel bracelet. Production of each color will be limited to 18 pieces.

Allowing the decoration to take center stage, the timekeeping indications are pared back to a minimum: fine, semi-skeletonized arrow-shaped hands and applied indexes with diamond-cut angles to reflect the light.

Czapek Promenade Plissé Rose

A Sleek Case and a Sophisticated Calibre

The imperative for Promenade was that the 38mm case should be slim, which called for a micro-rotor movement. Thus, Czapek translated the strengths of its in-house calibre SXH5 into this new identity, playing with its architecture to achieve the desired dial aesthetics.

The Promenade case is a modern evolution of Czapek’s icon – the original Quai des Bergues model – recognisable by the recessed and sand-blasted case sides, the curved crown protection, and a slim, rounded bezel.

Czapek Promenade Plissé Rose on the wrist

The Promenade Plissé will be available at the Maison’s official retailers worldwide, the Czapek boutique in Geneva, Switzerland, and at Czapek.com.

Deliveries will start in the first quarter of 2026.

Czapek Promenade Plissé White Pearl

For more information, please visit www.czapek.com/czapek-watches-collection-promenade

Quick facts: Czapek Promenade Plissé
Indications: Hours, minutes, small seconds at 4:30 o’clock
Dial: stamped dial, galvanic treatment color, applied indexes, exclusive and registered flinqué ‘Plissé’
(pleated) pattern • Created in collaboration with Metalem
Movement: in-house Czapek Caliber SXH5.1, self-winding mechanical movement with small seconds
Power reserve: 60 hours
Case: stainless steel
Dimensions: 38 mm diameter x 10.8 mm high
Water resistance: 50 meters
Strap/bracelet/buckle: Nubuck leather strap in grey (Pearl White), taupe (Ivory), or pink or grey (Rose), alternatively all models have the option of Milanese mesh bracelet in stainless steel
Limitation: Limited edition of 18 pieces in each of the three colors
Price: 16,000 Swiss francs (excluding taxes)

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