Zenith delved into unconventional colors in its Defy collection with the introduction of the purple-tinged Defy 21 Ultraviolet earlier this summer. With the new Defy El Primero 21 Pink Edition, the manufacture has created another flamboyantly colorful timepiece, this one distinctly devoted to a worthy cause. The watch features the world’s first pink-PVD-treated movement, created in association with Pink Ribbon Switzerland, to spread positivity and hope to countless women worldwide who are battling breast cancer.

Zenith Defy El Primero 21 Pink Edition

The Pink Edition comes in a 44-mm-diameter, rose-gold case set with 288 white-colored brilliant-cut diamonds of varying sizes, with 44 baguette-cut pink-hued sapphire stones on the gold bezel. The openworked black-and-gold dial reveals the metallic-looking, pink-tinted movement, which uses the color (obtained through a PVD coating) on its skeletonized bridges as well as on the signature star-shaped oscillating rotor on the back.
The openworked dial reveals the movement, with its pink PVD coating.

Like its Ultraviolet predecessor, the watch is powered by the lightning-fast El Primero 9004 automatic chronograph movement, whose integrated chronograph measures elapsed times up to 1/100th of a second thanks to the movement?s two escapements ? one for the watch (beating at 36,000-vph, or 5 Hz) and a second one for the chronograph (beating at 360,000 vph, or 50 Hz).

The integrated chronograph measures elapsed ti...