Camouflage dials have been an enormous hit prior to now couple of years, and we’ve coated a number of combat-ready fashions. Zenith pushes the camouflage idea to the intense, giving its Defy Excessive a radical makeover with a reflective mirrored floor. Undoubtedly the boldest tackle its high-performance 1/A hundredth-of-a-second chronograph, the most recent manifestation blends into its environment due to its distortion-free mirror-polished case, dial and bracelet.
Zenith’s Defy Excessive assortment, launched in 2021, is a high-testosterone brother of the Defy household, a lab rat of types to check out new supplies on its highly effective, angular case. Excessive in all senses, proper all the way down to the twin regulating organ, the regulator for the timekeeping beats at 5Hz whereas the second for the chronograph whizzes at 50Hz to seize 1/A hundredth-of-a-second chronograph readings.
Whereas we’re nonetheless coping with the identical specs as different Defy Excessive Chronographs, the look of the Defy Excessive Mirror is, nicely, like wanting right into a mirror. Crafted in stainless-steel, the 45mm case with its signature 12-sided bezel and built-in metal bracelet are mirror-polished all through to create a chrome-like floor that displays its environment with out distortions – one thing that was already skilled with sister-brand Bulgari right here.
The openworked, multi-layered dial contains a central sapphire crystal ingredient with a metallic mirrored end that’s translucent and reflective on the similar time. To help legibility, the 1/A hundredth-of-a-second chronograph scale is silver-coloured and snailed with black markings like these discovered on the three sub-dials. The utilized rhodium-plated hour markers, the hour and minute arms, and the arms within the three sub-dials (small seconds at 9 o’clock, 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock and 60-second counter at 6 o’clock) are all handled with Tremendous-LumiNova. Above the utilized silver Zenith star at midday is the ability reserve indicator similar to the chronograph. Racing across the dial at lightning velocity of 1 second, the central chronograph hand is matte and bears the signature openworked star counterweight.
Whereas the impact of the watch with the built-in mirror-polished metal bracelet is essentially the most spectacular, the Defy Excessive Mirror comes with two extra straps – little doubt a sensible possibility given the tendency of a mirror-polished bracelet to get scratched. One of many complimentary straps is black rubber and the second is a Velcro strap; all three choices are absolutely interchangeable due to the quick-change mechanism on the again.
Powered by the El Primero 9004, this automated calibre with its impartial high-frequency regulators – 36,000vph/5Hz for the time and 360,000vph/50Hz for the chronograph – has a big star-shaped rotor in a silvery metallic tone to match the case and dial.
Out there on the model’s bodily and on-line boutiques, the Zenith Defy Excessive Mirror retails for EUR 28,000 or CHF 25,900. Extra data at zenith-watches.com.
