BY CAROL BESLER
Montblanc’s TimeWalker Chronograph
IW INTERVIEW:
JULIEN TORNARE,
CEO OF ZENITH
iW sat down with Tornare for a few minutes
during Art Basel Miami earlier this year.
The Zenith Defy Lab is a breakthrough in watch
engineering. Will the technology be applied to other
watches or will it be featured in models in its own
collection?
It will be part of its own collection, the Defy, and we will introduce models
either in the first semester or the second semester of 2018. I really want to do
it next year for sure. Hopefully we can present something in Basel. The idea
from the beginning was not to make a concept watch but to have it concretely
in the collection.
Will it be a scaled-down version of the original? And
will it be offered at a reduced price from the Lab,
which was $30,000?
The first one will be very similar, in terms of the size, frequency and the
vibrating plate. Then will have the opportunity to do it in different sizes in
later editions. Basically you can play with the volume, and it doesn’t affect the
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The Zenith Defy Lab
features a case made of
an aluminum composite
Zenith calls Aeronith.