It’s great to see a brand like Zenith embrace their past while also looking ahead, offering watches that are borderline transgressive to more adventurous collectors. Think of the Poker Chip, for instance, or last year’s collaboration with artist Felipe Pantone. More than most brands, Zenith is balancing releases with a clear fidelity to the past that could easily pass as vintage watches to the uninformed with watches that feel completely contemporary. You can call it design forward, avant-garde, or just plain strange, but it’s an impressive addition to a growing catalog of Zenith watches that feel truly inspired. The end result is a dial that’s genuinely unique. Every step adds a new opportunity for an error to be made in a process that’s largely manual with plenty of handwork, so it’s not a surprise that only 250 of these special dials will be made. A production challenge inherent in making these dials is ensuring that colors don’t bleed from one side to the other, so a protective layer is applied to the white half before the black half is painted. Blank dials are finished entirely in the white color seen on the right side of a finished dial first, with that side’s black chrono registers getting milled before the gray register on the opposite side. As you might expect, creating a dial like this to the level of quality you’d expect from a brand like Zenith is no easy task, and requires a specialized process involving several steps outside the scope of their normal dial production.
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