Anybody who buys a Ti watch, let alone a matte-finished one, should expect to see marks. Vintage inspiration The Shadow is a blend of modern and vintage elements. Whenever I've commented about it on this forum, I've always caveated that it's a Titanium watch with a matte finish, so it is going to show marks. Overall the Shadow is a good alternative for someone who likes the A385 case shape, but wants a clean, modern style instead of a faithful vintage remake. As we know from the Chronomaster, Zenith experimented with coatings to darken cases during the prototyping stage, but unlike that earlier watch, the Defy Shadow doesn’t have a historical precedent. How to set a GMT Watch up to 3 timezones with the Grand Seiko SBGE201 Spring Drive GMTĬreative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3.0Ĭreative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported - CC BY 3. 5 1 - 20 of 20 Posts smalleq 2 I've owned this watch for over a year and a half. While the Chronomaster Revival Shadow was based on a specific watch from the Zenith archives, the Defy Shadow is more or less a flight of fancy.
Unlike its fellow remakes like the A384 and A386, or the more recent A385, the Shadow isn’t a replica of an actual vintage watch Zenith produced in its heyday before the. Everyone has been asking for 40mm Divers and while these pieces aren’t 100% divers, they certainly fit the bill as they have 20 bar water resistance, matching ceramic bezels and micro adjustments on the bracelet, its like Grand Seiko heard what everyone has been asking for and created it! What are your thoughts on these new pieces? When Zenith first took the covers off the Chronomaster Revival Shadow in the middle of last year, my immediate reaction was That’s a super cool-looking watch. Its advanced design is credited with saving Zenith in the 1980s when the brand was struggling to recover from the effects of the quartz crisis - the industry upheaval caused by the move to quartz watches.Īfter its takeover by its namesake, the American electronics producer The Zenith Radio Corporation in 1971, the new management ordered the disposal of the tooling required to produce the El Primero - but, according to lore, employee Charles Vermot squirrelled away the equipment in the factory attic where it remained for a decade before being brought back into use when mechanical watchmaking underwent its renaissance.įrom 1988 until 2002, El Primero movements were supplied to Rolex which modified them for use in its Cosmograph Daytona model - orders that helped to keep Zenith alive prior to its purchase and reinvigoration by the LVMH group 20 years ago.New to 2020 is Grand Seiko’s newest 40.5mm Spring Drive GMT pieces, the SBGE253, SBGE255 and SBGE257 from the Sport Collection. The El Primero is available in 23 versions (all based on the original).
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