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Zenith Defy Double Tourbillon Felipe Pantone 04.9001.9020/49.R782
Ref. 04.9001.9020/49.R782
The Zenith Defy 21 Double Tourbillon Felipe Pantone (04.9001.9020/49.R782) is the unique piece Zenith made for the Only Watch 2021 charity auction: a Defy with a case made entirely of sapphire crystal, coloured by the artist Felipe Pantone.
Specifications
- Brand
- Zenith
- Collection
- Defy
- Reference
- 04.9001.9020/49.R782
- Case diameter
- 46 mm
- Case thickness
- 14.5 mm
- Lug width
- 23 mm
- Case material
- Sapphire
- Case shape
- Round
- Dial
- Skeleton dial
- Markers
- Stick and dot markers
- Hands
- Stick
- Crystal
- Sapphire crystal
- Production
- 2021
- Limited edition
- Unique piece
About the Zenith 04.9001.9020/49.R782
Pantone, an Argentinian-Spanish artist, had already worked with Zenith on an earlier Defy 21. Here the movement bridges carry a rainbow gradient in a three-dimensional PVD mixed with silicon particles, the hands are rainbow-coloured too, and the small seconds at 6 o'clock has a moire effect made of thin black and white lines. "Unique Piece" is engraved on the back beneath a blackened star-shaped rotor. Christie's offered the watch on 6 November 2021, raising funds for research into Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Like the Defy 21 Double Tourbillon Sapphire (04.9000.9020/00.R920), a 10-piece edition in a transparent sapphire case, it runs two independent tourbillons: one at 5 Hz for the time, the other at 50 Hz for a chronograph that reads to 1/100th of a second. Pantone's name also appears on the Defy El Primero 21 Felipe Pantone (49.9008.9004.49.R782), a ceramic chronograph made in 100 pieces.
Sources: Watchonista, Time+Tide
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Other Defy references
All 103 Defy references| Reference | Size | Case | Dial | Made |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04.9001.9020/49.R782 | 46 mm | sapphire | skeleton | 2021 |
| 32.9006.9004/06.R918 | 44 mm | stainless steel | skeleton | 2021 |
| 95.9001.9004/01.M9000 | 44 mm | titanium | silver | 2018–2021 |
| 18.9003.8812/76.M9003 | 44 mm | rose gold | skeleton | 2018 |
| 49.9000.670/77.R782 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2019 |
| 33.9002.670/96.R587 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2019 |
| 49.9003.670/51.R793 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2019 |
| 49.9004.670/51.R599 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2019 |
| 87.9001.670/79.R589 | 41 mm | titanium and rose gold | skeleton | 2019–2021 |
| 87.9001.670/79.M9001 | 41 mm | titanium and rose gold | skeleton | 2019–2021 |
| 49.9002.670/01.R792 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2019 |
| 49.9002.670/01.R794 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2019 |
| 49.9005.670/11.R943 | 41 mm | titanium | skeleton | 2020 |
| 10.9000.670/80.R795 | 41 mm | carbon | skeleton | 2020 |
| 10.9001.670/80.M9000 | 41 mm | carbon | skeleton | 2020 |
| 49.9001.670/78.R781 | 41 mm | ceramic | skeleton | 2018 |
| 97.9000.670/26.M9000 | 41 mm | titanium | skeleton | 2021 |
| 95.9000.670/51.R584 | 41 mm | titanium | blue | 2018 |
| 95.9000.670/51.M9000 | 41 mm | titanium | blue | 2018 |
| 95.9000.670/51.R790 | 41 mm | titanium | blue | 2018 |
| 32.9001.670/78.R590 | 41 mm | titanium | skeleton | 2019 |
| 32.9003.670/86.R588 | 41 mm | titanium | skeleton | 2018 |
| 32.9002.670/71.R583 | 41 mm | titanium | skeleton | 2019 |
| 95.9000.670/78.R584 | 41 mm | titanium | skeleton | 2018 |
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