A young brand's steel sports watch, judged from the back
By Marco Bellini, Zurich ·
François Czapek was Patek's partner before Philippe was, and the revived brand likes to mention it. History is nice. I care more about what's in the case.
The SXH5 is an automatic with 60 hours, decently finished, and open enough that you can follow the train through the caseback. Small seconds on the dial, which I prefer to a centre seconds on this kind of design. 40.5 mm by 10.6 mm on a 22 mm metal bracelet, 120 m. Those are good, sensible numbers.
Less good: the case borrows heavily from the usual integrated-bracelet vocabulary, and I don't see much that is new in it. And 24,000 to 26,000 USD is a lot of money for steel from a small house, with all the uncertainty that brings about service in twenty years.
For someone who wants a steel sports watch nobody at the bar will recognise, and who will turn it over now and then. For a first serious watch, no.