This week, the focus of the watch world turns to Singapore, where brands from the LVMH stable have gathered for LVMH Watch Week 2023, the first big trade show of the year. The format this year is a hybrid between on-location and digital presentations, and features the full roster of LVMH brands, including Buglari, Hublot, and TAG Heuer. Today, we?re focusing on Zenith, as they?ve released a slate of watches in the Defy collection that mirrors last year?s new pieces, and also follows a formula we?ve seen through previous generations of the Defy. There are several new additions to the Defy collection overall, but to kick things off we?ll be taking a look at what Zenith has positioned as their marquee new release, the Defy Skyline Skeleton. 
The Zenith fans among you will remember that last year saw the introduction of the Defy Skyline platform, a new version of the Defy that borrows the high frequency movement found in Zenith?s latest chronographs, but without the chronograph. The integrated bracelet sports watches feature a unique running seconds display with a hand that makes a full rotation around its subdial once every ten seconds. Not, perhaps, the most useful feature to find its way to a luxury sports watch, but it?s kind of fun, and works as a flex on Zenith?s part in a very inside-baseball kind of way. 

And now, just as Zenith introduced a skeleton dial to the Defy Classic after it had been around for a bit, they?ve updated the Skyline with versions...