Peering into a loupe to check the enamel finish of a customised version of Czapek’s award-winning 33 bis Quai des Bergues watch, I was instead thrilled to discover a David Bowie lyric engraved across the dial. “We can all be heroes just for one day”, it read, from Bowie’s famous 1977 track, Heroes.
“Cool, yes?” asks Xavier de Roquemaurel, CEO of Czapek & Cie. “The dial was made just after Bowie passed. I wanted to pay tribute to him. I think we can all relate.” After spending an hour with de Roquemaurel, as he shared about the conception and evolution of Czapek & Cie, it almost felt like the lyric was also a call to arms of sorts for him and
