Compare this to the Zenith classic elprimero 42mm for example, where the lug to lug length is actually longer and extends over 51mm. To be honest this watch is 'wearable' on most wrists due to the stubby lugs - but the case shape does make the watch look chunky on smaller wrists.

It measures 44mm from 9 to 3, not including the crown or pushers, and around 50mm lug to lug. You can tell from the pictures that this is not a small watch. There are quite some reviews about it, but I will share my opinion as a wearer and owner instead, you can look up at it's technicalities elsewhere, as they will provide more accurate details. So, after a few days I kept thinking about my defy classic skeleton, and I ended up finding a preowned one at a decent price. Whilst not cheap in any sense, but definitely cheaper than most of the watches with skeletonized in-house movements. So getting one for that kind of money (below 6k USD), is to me - a 'bargain'. After a few days having it sold, I kind of missed it, it's one of the best watches I have ever owned on that pricepoint, and I especially like skeletonized or open-worked dials. But after a while, since the pandemic, it doesn't get much wrist time anyway, and I received an offer I couldn't refuse for it. Long story short, I bought the defy classic. To be honest, I never fancied one, until the latest defy iteration came out. From the old-age classical looks, to the bizzarre looking Defy Extreme with stars on the bezel. Equipped with two regulating organs and escapements, one beating at 5Hz for timekeeping, and the other at an incredible 50Hz to offer a true 1/100th of a second chronograph display, the El Primero 21 is the chronograph calibre of the 21st century.Zenith Defy has long been a wierd line in their production. The El Primero 21 is the culmination of over 50 years of perfecting the automatic chronograph at the Zenith manufacture.

Lovely watch, 100th of a second timer which has its own power reserve and main spring to make it very accurate.Ī high-frequency revolution.

“Performance or elegance, complexity or minimalism, there's a Zenith watch for every kind of visionary.”Ī touch of contemporary elegance on the DEFY 21 1/100th of a second chronograph in titanium. Zenith was purchased by LVMH in November 1999, becoming one of several brands in its watch and jewellery division which includes TAG Heuer and Hublot. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot at the age of 22, in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel. December (Tanzanite, Zircon or Turquoise).

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