To kick off 2025, Zenith has launched two watches that affirm its continued pursuit of modernity in watchmaking. Many individuals, if requested to summon to thoughts latest wins for the model, would provide up profitable re-editions of designs from its again catalogue, from the back-to-basics Chronomaster Authentic to final yr’s Defy Diver, which turned heads for its splashes of shiny orange and devoted reimagining of a much less well-known classic reference.
However, as a part of LVMH Watch Week 2025, Zenith has revealed two watches that decision on much more up to date inspirations and developments.
The primary is the Chronomaster Sport Rainbow, a watch that builds on latest hits throughout the business – together with inside Zenith’s personal collections – for gem-set sports activities watches usually and rainbow-set designs particularly. Taking as its canvas the sturdy and widespread Chronomaster Sport, Zenith has set the bezel in twelve distinct segments of baguette-cut sapphires, every separated by a transparent diamond, and accompanied by twelve matching baguette-set hour markers on the black dial inside. In whole, its 62 gems comprise 5.36 carats.
The Zenith Chronomaster Sport Rainbow
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The 41mm watch is cased in white gold – a primary for the Chronomaster Sport assortment – and follows the introduction of a gem-set mannequin in 18k rose gold final yr. Below the pores and skin it’s unchanged, with the El Primero automated 3600 calibre beating at 5Hz. The watch’s high-frequency timing is signalled by the central seconds hand, which rotates as soon as in ten seconds and allows timing all the way down to 1/tenth of a second.
The second new mannequin from Zenith is the Defy Skyline Chronograph Skeleton, an built-in bracelet design that fills a spot within the model’s line-up. With time-only skeletonised fashions, openworked chronographs within the Defy 21 and Defy Excessive collections, the plain subsequent step was to open out the usual Skyline Chronograph. Zenith has performed simply that with two variations of the Skyline Chronograph Skeleton in blue and black.
The Zenith Defy Skyline Chronograph Skeleton
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The skeletonisation – whereby usually strong plates, bridges and wheels are hollowed out to their structural minimal, and the dial eliminated – follows an aesthetic already established within the Defy Skyline Computerized, with symmetrical, geometric shapes (a few of which echo Zenith’s classic ‘double Z’ brand) and matte-finished textures. The chrome steel watches are an identical save for his or her color scheme, measuring 42mm throughout and with 100m water resistance. Every makes use of the identical Calibre 3600 because the Chronomaster Sport, with the identical 60-hour energy reserve, 5Hz frequency and high-speed central seconds hand. Every watch comes with a swappable rubber strap, colour-matched to the skeletonised motion.
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The Zenith Chronomaster Sport Rainbow
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