We recorded a podcast some months ago all about ?Guilty Pleasure? watches, and while I strongly believe that there?s no such thing as a ?guilty? pleasure at all, I think there are definitely watches that we become transfixed by against our better judgement. For one reason or another, or maybe a whole host of reasons, these watches seep into our brains, become WatchRecon alerts, and eventually turn into small objects of obsession, even though they?re not practical, cohesive in your collection, or even objectively good looking. I guess this is me coming clean, and admitting to a so-called guilty pleasure that I failed to recognize on that podcast, or perhaps it?s only just surfacing now. Either way, we should talk about the Zenith Defy Xtreme. Before we get to the Xtreme, a watch that?s long deserved a proper reading, let?s give a quick shout out to the new watch on the block, the Zenith Defy Extreme, unveiled just a few weeks ago at Watches & Wonders. This new El Primero 9004 powered high frequency chronograph shares a name (but not a spelling) with the Xtreme of the 00s, but is an altogether different type of watch, and fits more cleanly into Zenith?s modern design language than the Xtreme of old did when it was initially introduced. Put more simply, the new Extreme doesn?t feel like a radical departure from the norm in the way the Xtreme did years ago, and that?s a credit to Zenith for building out the Defy collection in recent years in a deliberate and logical way ...