This element marks the first time that Felipe Pantone’s aesthetic is applied to sapphire crystal, while highlighting Zenith’s persistence to find the most cutting-edge techniques to miniaturize and translate the artist’s palette into a horological context. This innovative process gives the sapphire an iridescent effect, reflecting different colours that shift with the angle of light while making the patterns visible. Using a transparent sapphire disk as the dial’s base, an innovative physio-chemical process is used to create some hidden micro-engraved patterns that are just 100 nanometres deep. As such, Zenith and Pantone sought to create a dial that retained the highly chromatic look typical of his work while incorporating elements that play with light in a most unexpected way. Colour gradients and the interplay of light, patterns and transparency are part of the artist’s signature. Dynamic and metamorphic, the dial of the Defy Extreme Felipe Pantone is unlike anything else that has ever been made in watchmaking.
The new Defy Revival Shadow will be available at Zenith boutiques, online, and authorized dealers with an MSRP of 7,400. Its the same movement used in the steel versions of the Defy Revival. 97.T384.4061/21.C822) has a price of Euro 8,300. The Defy Revival Shadow is powered by Zenith automatic Elite 670, which runs at 28,800 beats per hour and has a 50-hour power reserve. The Zenith Chronomaster Revival Shadow (ref. Turn it ever so slightly towards the light, and a spark of colours and geometric patterns emerge. The new Zenith Chronomaster Revival Shadow chronograph was inspired by a mysterious prototype that was made in 1970, not long after Zenith debuted the 1969 El Primero calibre, but never officially produced or commercialized. Looking down at the dial, its sapphire elements appear translucent and metallic.
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