Pantoneâs Iridescent Art Highlights New Zenith Defy Extreme

From JustLuxe contented spouse iW Magazine

Zenith reprises its concern with Argentinian-Spanish optical artist Felipe Pantone to make the new Defy Extreme Felipe Pantone, a limited-edition colorful chronograph with a metallic dial that reflects airy with micro-engraved iridescence.

The caller Zenith Defy Extreme Felipe Pantone.

Pantone combines color, metallic components, and mathematically conceived shapes to make optical illusions connected Defy’s dial. 

To make the dial’s colorful effect, Zenith reproduced a process Pantone has utilized often successful his Planned Iridescence creation installations.

Zenith technicians started with a clear sapphire disk arsenic the dial’s basal and past applied hidden, micro-engraved patterns measuring lone 100 nanometres deep. The patterns bespeak light, creating a rainbow of colors that displacement with the light.

You’ll spot shifting colors connected the hands arsenic well. Zenith finishes the chronograph’s infinitesimal antagonistic with a graduated standard of colors, wherever each infinitesimal is segmented by a antithetic tone. The chronograph’s 2nd antagonistic mimics a moiré effect with its thin, concentric black-and-white lines.

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At Pantone’s direction, Zenith besides made the watch’s dodecagonal bezel and its pusher protectors from translucent bluish YAS (yttrium aluminosilicate), a crystalline solid worldly comparable to synthetic sapphire. This adds much colour to the watch, beyond the dial. Just extracurricular the bezel, the 4 corners of the lawsuit are engraved with “FP#1”, a signature for “Felipe Pantone El Primero”.

Zenith past matched that translucent bluish with an arsenic translucent bluish silicone strap. Zenith besides includes a polished alloy bracelet and a achromatic Velcro strap with the watch.

Pantone besides demonstrates his chromatic-based benignant connected the watch’s El Primero high-frequency chronograph movement. He advised Zenith to use the gradient rainbow 3-D PVD coloring utilized connected the watch’s hands to the star-shaped rotor.

As a reminder, the El Primero question wrong the Defy Extreme bid is 1 of Zenith’s astir complicated. It features 2 independently driven regulating organs, beating astatine 50Hz for the chronograph and 5Hz for timekeeping.

Zenith offers the Defy Extreme Felipe Pantone as a constricted variation of 100 pieces, disposable exclusively astatine Zenith boutiques and online. Price: CHF 29,900.

Optical creator Felipe Pantone astatine work.

Specifications: Zenith Extreme Defy Felipe Pantone

(Reference: 03.9100.9004/49.I210)

Movement: El Primero 9004, 1/100th-of-a-second chronograph, 1 rotation per 2nd for the Chrono hand, 1 escapement for the ticker (36,000 VpH – 5 Hz); 1 escapement for the chronograph (360,000 VpH – 50 Hz). Certified Chronometer, powerfulness reserve of 60 hours.

Functions: Hours and minutes successful the center. Small seconds astatine 9 o’clock. 1/100th of a 2nd chronograph: Central chronograph manus that makes 1 crook each second; 30-minute antagonistic astatine 3 o’clock; 60-second antagonistic astatine 6 o’clock; Chronograph power-reserve denotation astatine 12 o’clock.

Finishes: Ruthenium-colored main sheet connected question + peculiar “Rainbow” PVD-colored oscillating value with satin finishings.

Case: 45mm polished alloy & bluish YAS, h2o resistant to 200 meters.  

Dial: Tinted sapphire with Felipe’s iridescent effect artwork pattern,  Rhodium-plated, faceted, and coated with Beige SuperLuminova hr markers and  Rhodium-plated, faceted with “Rainbow” PVD coating & SLN C1 hands. 

Bracelet: Transparent bluish Rubber. 2 straps included: 1 rubber with folding buckle & 1 Velcro, stainless alloy folding clasp.

Price: CHF 29,900.