Zenith, for the third 12 months in a row, has joined forces with Susan G. Komen, the world’s main nonprofit breast most cancers group, on a restricted version watch meant to spotlight the work Susan G. Komen is doing and lift cash for the group. Final 12 months noticed Zenith launch a Chronomaster Sport with a light-weight pink dial, and this 12 months’s comply with up brings the identical aesthetic to the Defy Skyline.
Zenith’s efforts with Susan G. Komen are a part of their bigger HORIZ-ON initiative, which is a company-wide dedication to “company social duty.” These initiatives run the gamut and happen all around the world, touching native communities and broader swaths of the inhabitants. The continuing partnership with Susan G. Komen represents “One of many key pillars of ZENITH’s HORIZ-ON initiative,” in response to Zenith CEO Benoit de Clerck.
The brand new Defy Skyline Pink is a restricted version of 100 items and makes use of the brand new 41mm Skyline case (in metal) because the canvas. The Defy, for my part, continues to be one of the crucial underrated sports activities watch strains in manufacturing in the meanwhile. The gathering has an extended and interesting heritage, with some really modern and provocative design in its previous, and it nonetheless represents probably the most ahead considering arm of the Zenith model immediately. The Skyline, in its comparatively quick historical past, has already confirmed itself to be a worthy fashionable successor to the nice Defy references of the previous.
For this pink dialed restricted version, we get all of the hallmarks of the trendy Skyline assortment, together with a dial with a metallic end and a refined sunburst impact. We even have the four-pointed star motif engraved into the dial, a element meant to evoke the earliest references within the Defy assortment which featured the outdated Zenith star brand.
Pink dials have been considerably fashionable recently, maybe most notably with the Tudor Black Bay Chronograph launched earlier this 12 months (and lined right here and right here). Whereas we haven’t seen a real run of pink dials in the way in which we did with inexperienced a number of years in the past (and the way in which it looks like we would see with purple dials if present tendencies maintain), pink dials appear to get consideration. Whereas the outdated “shrink it and pink it” mentality has waned in the case of watches geared toward ladies, pink has change into fairly a bit extra frequent in watches that would appear to focus on a unisex market. After all, on condition that the Defy Skyline Pink exists partially to help a charitable trigger, it’s a bit of outdoors the scope of a dialog round dial shade tendencies, but it surely’s price mentioning that Zenith, in all of their collaborations with Susan G. Komen, have elected to launch a watch that’s historically geared toward a unisex or male clientele.
The Defy Skyline Pink runs on the identical El Primero 3620 motion present in different Skyline references. It’s also 100 meters water-resistant, and comes mounted on an identical stainless-steel bracelet (a white rubber strap can also be included). The retail worth is $10,300, and 20% of the proceeds from the sale of those watches can be donated to Susan G. Komen. Zenith
