Zenith Defy Skyline: Refined Angularity
The new Zenith Defy Skyline is a playful interpretation of fast-paced downtown urban life that hides some serious horological chops.
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As you look at the new Zenith Defy Skyline, you might wonder if this is the new face of time for the 2020s, and you might be right. Very few watches had the same aesthetic sensibilities as the Defy Skyline 10 years ago ? Zenith certainly did not have such a watch, for example.
By way of contrast, if you scroll through our own coverage of time-only watches from the last three years or so, you will see more and more watches that share key characteristics as the Defy Skyline. This is not to say that the three Zenith Defy Skyline models in stainless steel are entirely new ? a watch collection without lineage, if you will. Hardly anything in fine watchmaking arrives totally without precedent.
Indeed, Zenith?s own series of revival watches tells us that the Defy Skyline is very much informed by the design sensibilities that marked the original octagonal Defy of 1969. Today, that original has been succeeded by the Defy Revival A3642, which does pretty much what its name suggests. The Defy Skyline brings this reference properly into the 21st century.
Image: Zenith
READ MORE: Zenith Defy Extreme Desert: Falcon?s Eye
To begin with, the Zenith Defy Skyline is a two-hander with date and a subdial at 9 o?clock, which appears to be a running seco...
The post Zenith Defy Skyline: Refined Angularity appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Zenith
As you look at the new Zenith Defy Skyline, you might wonder if this is the new face of time for the 2020s, and you might be right. Very few watches had the same aesthetic sensibilities as the Defy Skyline 10 years ago ? Zenith certainly did not have such a watch, for example.
By way of contrast, if you scroll through our own coverage of time-only watches from the last three years or so, you will see more and more watches that share key characteristics as the Defy Skyline. This is not to say that the three Zenith Defy Skyline models in stainless steel are entirely new ? a watch collection without lineage, if you will. Hardly anything in fine watchmaking arrives totally without precedent.
Indeed, Zenith?s own series of revival watches tells us that the Defy Skyline is very much informed by the design sensibilities that marked the original octagonal Defy of 1969. Today, that original has been succeeded by the Defy Revival A3642, which does pretty much what its name suggests. The Defy Skyline brings this reference properly into the 21st century.
Image: Zenith
READ MORE: Zenith Defy Extreme Desert: Falcon?s Eye
To begin with, the Zenith Defy Skyline is a two-hander with date and a subdial at 9 o?clock, which appears to be a running seco...
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