After Zenith’s latest showing at LVMH Watch Week 2025, a new category might need to be added to the Master of Chronographs title — Master of Colours. From the most recent DEFY Extreme Jungle to the DEFY 21 Chroma II and DEFY Midnight Sunset, Zenith has quietly added colours to its repertoire. Colours would have been one of the last things people would associate the Le Locle manufacture with, but it has been steadily producing eye-catching pieces apart from the atypical range of blue, white and black. While this might be a farfetched theory, to say the least, perhaps Argentine-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone’s collaborations with Zenith over the past few years have blossomed and elicited a positive effect on Zenith’s design team.

Zenith’s LVMH Watch Week 2025 novelty, the Chronomaster Sport Rainbow, continues in this foray with a resplendent take on watchmaking. If you are an avid follower, you would know by now what the rainbow connotation in watch names means — a gradated multicoloured gem-set bezel. This example is exactly it, utilising Zenith’s popular Chronomaster Sport as canvas. The case and bracelet are crafted in 18k white gold, while the bezel features 50 baguette cut gems consisting of 40 sapphires (~3.9cts) and 10 diamonds (~1ct). A further 12 baguette sapphires are arranged in the hour indices against the inky black dial and Zenith’s signature overlapping tricolour counters.

Within the watch is where Zenith’s true mastery shines — high-frequency chronographs. The El Primero 3600 Automatic calibre operates at a frequency of 36,000 vph (higher than industry standards of 28,800 vph) to ensure greater accuracy and precision. Its chronograph benefits from the higher frequency too, allowing it to record up to 1/10th of a second.

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