DEFY 21: A Unique Collaboration From Zenith

The DEFY 21 Felipe Pantone is the result of a unique collaboration between Zenith and contemporary artist Felipe Pantone. The result is a strikingly chromatic creation that is all about playing with frequencies – visually and mechanically. Limited to 100 pieces and five artist’s proofs.

Conceived as a work of wearable kinetic art, the DEFY 21 Felipe Pantone marks the artist’s first watch design, as well as Zenith’s first collaboration with a contemporary artist. For this unprecedented collaboration, Zenith took the avant-garde design of the DEFY 21 to new dimensions with a number of unique details conceived with Felipe Pantone.

This includes the laser-engraved black ceramic case with a grid motif, housing an open movement with world-first rainbow PVD treatment, as well as PVD with laser-engraving to produce a moiré visual effect. The lightning bolt-shaped hands are also filled with a colour-gradient PVD.

With its 1/100th of a second El Primero 21 chronograph movement beating at an extremely high frequency of 360’000 vibrations per hour for unrivalled precision, the DEFY 21 served as the perfect canvas onto which Felipe Pantone could express his ‘visible spectrum concept’.

Technical Specifications:

MOVEMENT	El Primero
COMPONENTS	293
FREQUENCY	36,000 VpH (5 Hz)
POWER RESERVE	min. 50 hours

1/100th of a second Chronograph:
– Central chronograph hand that makes one turn each second
– 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock
– 60-second counter at 6 o’clock
– Chronograph power-reserve indication at 12 o’clock

Hours and minutes in the centre Small seconds at 9 o’clock