It probably won?t come as much of a surprise to anyone who has read my work on this site or chatted with me about watches in person or on Instagram, but there really isn?t a brand whose new releases I anticipate more fervently than Zenith. I?ve long had a fascination with the brand (which I?ve covered a bunch) and have felt like many of their watches are criminally overlooked in favor of any number of hype watches of the moment. But Zenith is a brand with real history, many technical innovations, and frequently displays a flair in their design language that more conservative Swiss brands would frankly never even approach. They strike a chord with me for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is their perennial status as the underdog against bigger brands with watches that are, at least in the strange terms of our hobby, household names.  But something has happened to Zenith over the last few years. They are no longer the same scrappy underdog. Now, every new release is covered by every watch media organization, and the story of the El Primero is nearly as well known as the Speedmaster. Zenith even has their own hype watches, commanding well over retail on the secondary market, and at auction no less. And while Zenith has leaned heavily into their considerable chronograph history, they?ve had strong showings in the Defy lineup as well, and in the more avant-garde realm of watch design, where I?d argue that complications aren?t really the centerpiece anyway. They...