Zenith Defy 21 Felipe Pantone: High-Frequency Timing Meets Kinetic Art
Zenith has launched some of its boldest colorways on special editions of its ultra-high-frequency Defy 21 chronograph (as witness last year’s Ultraviolet and Pink Editions and the recently unveiled Urban Jungle). For perhaps the most vibrant execution yet, the manufacture has teamed with Argentinean-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone to create a timepiece that it describes as “a piece of wearable kinetic art.” Here’s a closer look at the Zenith Defy 21 Felipe Pantone.
The new Zenith Defy 21 Felipe Pantone (above) reflects the multicolored “kinetic art” of its namesake (below).
Zenith began its collaboration with Felipe Pantone in 2020, when the company offered the façade of its main building in Le Locle, Switzerland, as a canvas for contemporary artists to showcase work. In Pantone’s case, that work centers around the so-called “visible spectrum concept,” which uses frequencies of light and refracted colors to inspire a rainbow of gradient color variations. Hence the choice of the Defy 21 model ? the highest-frequency chronograph wristwatch in production ? as the stage for a radically different timepiece that is, as Zenith puts it, “all about frequencies ? visually and mechanically.”
Zenith developed entirely new techniques to achieve the watch’s rainbow effects.
To execute Pantone’s vision for the Defy 21 watch that bears his name and style, Zenith had to develop new techniques never ...
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