ZENITH CHRONOMASTER GOLD FULL

Because who really walks around wearing a solid gold watch in their normal everyday life? And does the wearing of said watch somehow make a life less normal and those daily tasks less mundane? Or they assume, if they see it at all, that it’s gold plated, or fake, or whatever. I think, as with most steel watches, people (normal people) just don’t notice them. I don’t think it was even close to happening.

ZENITH CHRONOMASTER GOLD FULL

I half expected total strangers to come up to me and ask me about it, to which I’d reply with the full reference number and an explanation of the 1/10th second chronograph, and my new friend would walk away enlightened and informed. You hear a lot about gold watches being ostentatious and flashy. One thing I can say for sure is that it didn’t seem to attract attention. But now that I was out in the world (and you’re never more fully “in the world” than waiting for a train in midtown Manhattan) I wondered to myself if there could ever be a scenario where a watch like this would seem normal to me. In the office, it didn’t feel strange to wear it because it’s a little watch bubble where everyone is more or less thinking and talking about watches constantly. I’ve been wearing this gold watch for the better part of a full workday at this point, and I still catch myself feeling genuinely surprised when I look toward my wrist to check the time (or just admire the thing) and see the luster of gold and not the cool slab of steel I’m used to. More to confirm that it’s there, on my wrist, and that I haven’t imagined this whole scenario somehow.Īnyway, here I was, not quite post-pandemic, in an absolute sea of humanity, throngs of people passing each other to who knows where, just to get away for what I’m sure they all hoped would be a relaxing weekend of cookouts, parades, and all the other trappings of a leisurely summer weekend. I caught myself looking at the Chronomaster Open frequently. I found a (relatively) quiet place to sit down and aimlessly stare at my phone while I waited for the “Stand By” message to come over the intercom. Late afternoon on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, it turns out, is a busy time to travel. It turns out, I had plenty of time to ponder this while waiting in Moynihan Train Hall, certainly a more aesthetically pleasing venue to wear this particular watch than the subterranean and generally horrifying Penn Station, just across 8th Avenue. If I had the ability to sleep with one eye open, believe me when I tell you I’d have it trained on the solid gold chronograph sitting on my bedside table. This is the nature of taking on an expensive loaned watch. Over the course of a long Memorial Day weekend, the rose gold Chronomaster Open would barely leave my wrist, and never leave my sight. I opened it up, removed the watch, set the time, and strapped it on. Frankly, I can’t imagine why.Īnd so it was that on my last day in the office, a package arrived with the watch inside, unceremoniously presented in its black Zenith travel case. People generally don’t just go around asking me if I want to borrow a brand new gold chronograph for a few days. Well, let me tell you: that’s not an opportunity I’m going to miss. I honestly didn’t even realize while I was quickly skimming the email that it was the rose gold version being offered up. Would I be interested in taking one of the new Zenith Chronomaster Opens on loan for a bit so I could write about it for the site? Yes, of course I would. Now, Zenith is upholding this tradition by adding this lustrous 18K rose gold model as the latest edition to the Chronomaster Sport line.On my most recent trip to the Worn & Wound offices in Brooklyn, I received an email toward the end of my week in the city from the rep for Zenith, one of my favorite brands.

As Zenith put it “the Chronomaster Sport combines the spirit of the El Primero A386, the form of the Chronomaster De Luca and the high-frequency performance established by the El Primero Calibre for over 50 years in a sporty chronograph like no other – in both style and substance”.Įver since the early days of the El Primero back in 1969, the Swiss brand has offered gold models of their automatic chronographs. The Chronomaster Sport is brought together by years of history and knowledge of Zenith’s automatic chronographs.

You can read the full review of these models here. Watchadvice had the chance to do an in-depth review of the collection as it was released, with side-by-side comparisons on both the black and white dial Chronomaster Sport models. Earlier this year, Zenith released the Chronomaster Sport collection, which marked the beginning of a new era for the brand’s quintessential sporty-chic chronograph.

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