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Zenith Pilot Type 20 Extra Special 40mm Khaki Showcase Review

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Channel: Govberg Jewelers · 2017 · Howto & Style

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Greetings, and welcome to the world of Zenith. Today, I'll be your guide to the Zenith Pilot Type 20 extra special 40 millimeters in aged stainless steel, with khaki green granular dial, and matching oily nubuck leather strap. For 2017, Zenith has taken its iconic pilot's watch design language, robust round case, dome sapphire, vintage inspired straight cut lugs, cathedral hands, and broad, fluted crown, and translated these features into a more democratic unisex size of 40 millimeters. 
 
The timepiece is thematically consistent in every respect, with Zenith's classic pilot-inspired timepieces. That continues on the 40 millimeter model, beginning with a broad Zenith star-capped titanium brushed finished pin buckle for easy, on the fly adjustability. It also has an oversized trapezoidal form that's true to history. 
 
An oily nubuck calfskin strap provides a vintage aesthetic, with a contrasting stitch in aviator fashion, but on the underside, modern luxury watch refinement, as a natural vulcanized rubber inlay protects the oily nubuck leather from the grit, the sweat, the moisture of the wrist, for long-wearing durability. 
 
On the case back, you can see Zenith's engraved coat of arms, as well as the note, [foreign lanuage 00:01:33] Type 20. True to its heritage, the watch features both the imagery, and the nomenclature of Zenith's great pilot's watches of the first half of the 20th century. You'll also note that, although this is an aviator's timepiece, the watch is water-resistant to a robust 100 meters, so on a textile strap, or rubber strap, it can be taken in the water. Appropriate for pilots, but also for seaplane pilots.
 
The watch is designed in vintage fashion, featuring an inlaid addition and numbering plaque on its flank. You can see this watch, a limited edition. One of 250 manufactured, and on its top, a generously domed sapphire transitions to a khaki green grained dial. Now, it is a dial that has a fade from its interior to its exterior. We may as well work our way from the outside in. Starting with the railroad style mids and seconds track, printed white on dark for excellent contrast, we transition to highly stylized, and fully luminescent, vintage style Arabic numerals. At center, the broad cathedral style hands make for easy reading at a glance, whether during night or day. 
 
The immense crown, featuring Zenith's signature knurled pattern, is easy to grasp when the hands are gloved in aviator fashion, or simply wet or sweaty. And inside, sits a Zenith manufacture caliber 679, based on the Zenith Elite Automatic. 27 jewels, automatic winding, it boasts a superior 50 hour power reserve, far more than the industry standard of 40 or 42. It also features hacking seconds, so that when you pull the crown to extremity, you do stop the seconds hand, permitting precise synchronization against a reference time. 
 
You can see this Zenith Pilot Type 20 Extra Special in 40 millimeters, aged stainless steel, along with the entire Zenith collection of premium timepieces, on our website govbergwatches.com.

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