![]() ![]() This element marks the first time that Felipe Pantone’s aesthetic is applied to sapphire crystal, while highlighting Zenith’s persistence to find the most cutting-edge techniques to miniaturize and translate the artist’s palette into a horological context. A modern remake of the A3817 from 1971, combining the 37mm tonneau shaped case of the A384 with the white tri-colour. This innovative process gives the sapphire an iridescent effect, reflecting different colours that shift with the angle of light while making the patterns visible. ![]() Using a transparent sapphire disk as the dial’s base, an innovative physio-chemical process is used to create some hidden micro-engraved patterns that are just 100 nanometres deep. As such, Zenith and Pantone sought to create a dial that retained the highly chromatic look typical of his work while incorporating elements that play with light in a most unexpected way. Colour gradients and the interplay of light, patterns and transparency are part of the artist’s signature. Dynamic and metamorphic, the dial of the Defy Extreme Felipe Pantone is unlike anything else that has ever been made in watchmaking. Turn it ever so slightly towards the light, and a spark of colours and geometric patterns emerge. Looking down at the dial, its sapphire elements appear translucent and metallic. Revival El Primero 37mm 97.t384.4061/21.c822 A386 Shadow 7,380.
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