Zenith, for the third 12 months in a row, has joined forces with Susan G. Komen, the world’s main nonprofit breast most cancers group, on a restricted version watch meant to focus on the work Susan G. Komen is doing and lift cash for the group. Final 12 months noticed Zenith launch a Chronomaster Sport with a light-weight pink dial, and this 12 months’s observe up brings the identical aesthetic to the Defy Skyline.
Zenith’s efforts with Susan G. Komen are a part of their bigger HORIZ-ON initiative, which is a company-wide dedication to “company social accountability.” These initiatives run the gamut and happen all around the world, touching native communities and broader swaths of the inhabitants. The continuing partnership with Susan G. Komen represents “One of many key pillars of ZENITH’s HORIZ-ON initiative,” based on Zenith CEO Benoit de Clerck.
The brand new Defy Skyline Pink is a restricted version of 100 items and makes use of the brand new 41mm Skyline case (in metal) because the canvas. The Defy, for my part, continues to be some of the underrated sports activities watch strains in manufacturing in the mean time. The gathering has an extended and engaging heritage, with some really revolutionary and provocative design in its previous, and it nonetheless represents essentially the most ahead considering arm of the Zenith model in the present day. The Skyline, in its comparatively brief historical past, has already confirmed itself to be a worthy fashionable successor to the nice Defy references of the previous.
For this pink dialed restricted version, we get all of the hallmarks of the fashionable Skyline assortment, together with a dial with a metallic end and a delicate sunburst impact. We even have the four-pointed star motif engraved into the dial, a element meant to evoke the earliest references within the Defy assortment which featured the outdated Zenith star brand.
Pink dials have been considerably fashionable these days, maybe most notably with the Tudor Black Bay Chronograph launched earlier this 12 months (and lined here and here). Whereas we haven’t seen a real run of pink dials in the best way we did with inexperienced a couple of years in the past (and the best way it looks as if we would see with purple dials if present traits maintain), pink dials appear to get consideration. Whereas the outdated “shrink it and pink it” mentality has waned on the subject of watches aimed toward ladies, pink has turn into fairly a bit extra frequent in watches that would appear to focus on a unisex market. After all, provided that the Defy Skyline Pink exists partially to assist a charitable trigger, it’s a bit of outdoors the scope of a dialog round dial colour traits, but it surely’s value stating that Zenith, in all of their collaborations with Susan G. Komen, have elected to launch a watch that’s historically aimed toward a unisex or male clientele.
The Defy Skyline Pink runs on the identical El Primero 3620 motion present in different Skyline references. It’s also 100 meters water-proof, and comes mounted on an identical stainless-steel bracelet (a white rubber strap can be included). The retail worth is $10,300, and 20% of the proceeds from the sale of those watches will probably be donated to Susan G. Komen. Zenith
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