Beginning with the metal launch, we now have what basically quantities to a metal Chronomaster Sport with a inexperienced ceramic bezel and matching dial. Whereas the watch is placing, this isn’t the primary time in the previous few months we now have seen a Chronomaster Sport in inexperienced. 2023 noticed two inexperienced Chronomaster Sports activities, one as a part of a quartet of watches meant for Solely Watch 2023, the opposite a boutique-exclusive restricted version impressed by the model’s relationship with NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
This newest execution retains a equally vibrant inexperienced as these, however with a way more down-the-line execution, opting out of the Arabic numerals that set the Aaron Rodgers version aside, and selecting to maintain the enduring grey and blue subdials of the usual manufacturing fashions.
New for this mannequin is the choice to get the watch on a color-matched rubber strap. The strap is a pleasant complement to the Chronomaster Sport and emphasizes the inexperienced’s barely extra informal power. Inexperienced appears to be having a continued second over at LVMH, with TAG Heuer and Hublot additionally releasing new watches within the in style hue.
That stated, if inexperienced doesn’t give you fairly sufficient pop, don’t fear. Zenith has you coated with their newest gold launch. Just like the inexperienced Chronomaster Sport, this new gem-set mannequin is, at its core, the watch we’re all acquainted with. That’s to say, a totally trendy, well-finished, high-end chronograph outfitted with a 1/tenth of a second El Primero 3600 column-wheel chronograph motion.
Past that, that is one thing we haven’t seen earlier than. To begin, whereas earlier rose gold and two-tone releases of the Chronomaster Sport have include both gold or ceramic bezels marked with 1/tenth of a second scales, this new Chronomaster Sport eschews these choices in favor of a totally gem-set bezel made up of sapphires, diamonds, and spinels.
The bezel nonetheless retains the features of the scaled bezel because of a ten-diamond structure marking the size, and the tricolor bezel displays the Chronomaster Sport’s subdial structure with blue stones from 12 to 4, black from 4 to eight, and grey from 8 again to 12, echoing the tricolor ceramic bezel discovered on the Boutique Version Chronomaster Sport launched at Watches & Wonders 2022. I’m an enormous fan of that watch, and bringing that coloring to this new mannequin is a win in my e book.
The enjoyable doesn’t cease with the bezel although. A rose-gold tone meteorite dial and diamond markers spherical out the bundle and create a splendidly over-the-top watch that I very a lot look ahead to testing in individual in some unspecified time in the future (hopefully quickly).
Each fashions can be found now, with the newly inexperienced Chronomaster Sport in metal priced at $11,300 on a bracelet and $10,800 on the brand new rubber strap, and the gold, gem-set mannequin priced at $98,600. Zenith
