This Wild Digital Watch Supersizes Rolex’s Most Controversial Feature, and That’s Not All

There has been no shortage of crazy watches in 2025, but I think Czapek’s new 10th Anniversary watch takes the cake.

Celebrating 10 years of modern Czapek — and 180 years since the once-obscure watch company first existed in its short-lived original form — the new Time Jumper takes inspiration from pocket watches created by the brand’s founder in the 19th century, but blasts the concept into the future both visually and mechanically.

The Time Jumper features a brand-new movement, a new case, a new complication, a new guilloché pattern … let’s just say there’s a whole lot that’s new about this watch. And the way it’s put together is absolutely insane.

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Jump in the time

There’s a ton going on with the Time Jumper, all of it very cool, so let me touch on the movement first before getting into the case and the unique ways in which time is displayed in the watch.

The movement is a new in-house calibre from Czapek, Cal. 10.1, which, in basic terms, is a jumping-hour automatic. But it’s more than that. The jumping hour complication is executed in a patent-pending 24-hour format, so that two digits are always displayed when showing the time. The hour discs are made of transparent sapphire and are mounted side by side so the current hour is displayed in the center of the dial.

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A trailing minutes track, also in sapphire with laser-created color and texture, runs along the periphery of the dial. Both the digital hours and minutes are laser-engraved and filled with Super-LumiNova, making it just as easy to read the time at night as during the day.

The movement boasts a 60-hour power reserve, a free-sprung balance, 44 jewels and 275 total components — 75 percent of which were machined in-house. It’s wound via a skeletonized platinum rotor and, in typical Czapek fashion, is beautifully decorated with chamfered, rhodium-plated bridges contrasting with blackened plates and black-polished springs.

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The movement is fully exposed through a sapphire caseback, and it’s completely open-worked on the dial side under a sapphire crystal, too — but only when you want it to be.

That’s because the watch features a pocket watch-inspired half-hunter case, with a lid covering the dial and only exposing the current hour and minutes through two separate sapphire windows when closed.

The central window showing the hour is magnified and is reminiscent of a circular, supersized version of Rolex’s most controversial feature, the cyclops magnifier. But instead of magnifying the date and appearing at 3:00, Czapek’s cyclops “loupe” is smack-dab in the middle of the dial to blow up the most important of the watch’s two digital displays.

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The half-hunter cover is decorated with a new handmade guilloché pattern that’s exclusive to this watch. Its vortex pattern is designed to draw your eye to the hour display at the center of the dial. To get a full view of the movement, simply press the polished, oval-shaped button on the case at 6:00 and the cover springs open, revealing the mysterious inner workings of this complex mechanical digital watch.

Although the starting point of its design was a pocket watch, the case of the Time Jumper was ultimately crafted to resemble a UFO. It’s almost entirely smooth and round with virtually no straight edges, and it looks especially striking from the side, with its bubble-like hour magnifier functioning at the “cockpit” for this time-telling flying saucer.

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Pricing and availability

Refreshingly, Czapek has crafted the Time Jumper out of steel, allowing the watch to be about as affordable as it can be — which is to say, not affordable at all. But it could be worse.

The steel version of the watch is limited to 100 pieces and is priced at CHF 42,000 (~$52,682). As of this writing, there are still 56 available for preorder on Czapek’s website, so if you’ve got that kind of cash sitting in your rainy day fund, have at it.

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If the steel Time Jumper doesn’t feel special enough to you (impossible), there is also a version in full 18K yellow gold. It’s limited to 30 pieces, 20 of which are still available, and is priced at CHF 64,000 (~$80,283).

Both versions of the watch are mounted on the same blue rubber strap with a pin buckle in the same material as their respective case.

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Czapek Time Jumper

Specs

Case Size	40.5mm
Movement	Czapek Cal. 10.1 jumping hour automatic
Water Resistance	30m

• $52,682 at Czapek

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