STYLE HAS NO BORDER
With this duo of timepieces designed for borderless adventure in collaboration with the Japanese brand, the watchmaker from Le Locle takes wrists on a journey to the end of style.
The end of the year is fast approaching, and is the perfect excuse to open wide the doors of the world, to fly away to the gentle warmth of the southern hemisphere or, on the contrary, to seek the coolness of the northern lands, with a Pilot x Porter from Zenith on your wrist. The Le Locle watchmaker recently unveiled two watches designed in collaboration with the Japanese travel accessories specialist: the Pilot Central Automatic Porter and the Pilot Big Date Flyback Porter, each limited to 500 pieces.
Heir to Zenith‘s long relationship with aviation, the Pilot, which was modernized in 2023, borrows the emblematic colors of the Japanese brand’s color chart by dressing its cases – 40mm for the automatic version, 42.5mm for the chronograph – in olive-green ceramic. The same hue covers the dials, which feature horizontal lines and a flock of large luminescent Arabic numerals. A few touches of orange adorn the central hour, minute and seconds hands and, for the Big Date Flyback, the small seconds counter (at 9 o’clock) and totalizer (at 3 o’clock). At 6 o’clock, the date appears in white in a single or double window, depending on the reference. These two new models beat to the rhythm of high-frequency (5hz) automatic El Primero movements, caliber 3620 for the three-hand and 3652 for the chronograph, and both deliver 60 hours of autonomy when fully wound. They can be worn either on two strands of Cordura-effect rubber and a PVD-blackened steel folding clasp, or on a nylon fabric strap closed by a Velcro® band.
