What does this brand have to do with MB&F, Patek, Breguet and Phillip Dufour? Company Summary: In 1839, Patek joined with a fellow polish Francois Czapek as a partner, his first partner creating the company of Patek, Czapek & Cie. This partnership lasted only 6 years, before Czapek moved on to become the watchmaker for Prince Napoleon, having boutiques in Geneva, Warsaw and Paris in the mid 1850’s. What does something 200 years ago have relevance today? Well, the team who revitalized the brand in 2012  went on to purchase one of these original pocketwatches, 2 centuries later, to study Czapek’s originals, and thus produced the Quai Des Bergues line (“Kay dhe Burg” if you feeling nasty). After four years of pursuing recreation, in the most MB&F way, they paired with some industry powerhouses to produce something that was unmade since then-hands of Francois Czapek. This was Czapek & Cie’s first watch, and this won that year’s GPHG award - that’s like debut Film, boom, Oscars.  Starting at only a couple hundred made a year, today, Czapek is only making 1,000 watches annually. They continue to slowly expand as a small company, but already have an in-house tourbillon, chronograph, and acclaimed sports-watch in the collection. All of it is proprietary, and 100% swiss made, none of this bare-minimum swiss made nonsense.  Alright, Finally, you wordy b\*\*\*\*\*, get to the watch already: Sorry, my bad, there’s just so much to cover, and I’m tired of these low effort watch posts from dealers. Man, even if you aren’t here to buy this watch, I wanna share in the hobby with you. JDM This “Kay dhe Berg” is a Japanese exclusive, made explicitly for the Japanese market a year after winning the 2016 Watch-Oscars. They made these as a limited edition run for a set of smaller-wristed collectors in 38.5mm, at time that 42mm was the norm - 100 made and this one is the 3rd watch. The 3rd watch, #3, paired with the 3rd movement made specifically for this smaller run, 3rd off the assembly line, and serial number ending in XX333. And the documents, in Japanese, back it all up. Dial: Let’s continue the fun with a star-point of the show-  the dial - if you aren’t already tired of me. Made by Metelem, the same company that does the Grand Feu enamel work for Breguet and Philippe Dufour, creates this dial as well. If you look at Phillippe Dufour’s simplicity and compare, it’s very telling. But Metelem doesn’t earn legendary status for nothing - Grand Feu enamel is one of the most difficult dial methods due to high failure rate and color inaccuracies. These struggles are endured for the deep dial depth and heightened durability. What makes this really beautiful is the dropped subdials, after the journey that is making the time-telling dial, they risk further crack, break, and failure by carving out two subdials, weld in two sub-plates and subject the dial to more rigorous rounds of 1,500 degree heat (or leave it outside in the heatwave we’ve been going through lately). We can see this risk pay off with a smooth milky dial, and small granular texture in the subdials that tell you the seconds, days of power reserve and day of the week. Hands: The hands are Fluer De Lys hands, commonly found in pocketwatches. And since this is inspired by Czapek’s original pocketwatch, dedicated effort to recreate these hands in this millenia was needed - the hands are heat-blued, proprietary, and hand rolled for Czapek. You’ll not find this anywhere else. \[Cont'd in Comments\]