Zenith Pilot Montre d'Aeronef Type 20

The new watch is Zenith Montre d’Aeronef Type 20 Pilot’s Watch, designed in a very limited edition of only 250 pieces. At the gala evening, visitors had a chance to bid for 1/250 watch, before it becomes officially presented to the public in March. The event was very successful and more than 1.4 million Swiss francs (or 1.16 million euros) were collected in benefit of the Smiling Children organization. Smiling Children, non-profit organization based in Switzerland and the United Kingdom and focused on education for young girls, promoting the empowerment of women and generating positive changes for women through innovative ideas.

The new watch is a tribute to pilot Zenith story, and it houses Zenith’s legendary pocketwatch Calibre 5011. The design of the new Zenith Pilot Montre d’Aeronef Type 20 Pilot’s Watch evokes the shape of aviation dashboard clocks. It is very large, and boasts amazing 57.5mm in diameter. The smooth black dial features big bold Arabic numerals, painted in white luminescent material, and bold oversized hands.


Zenith Pilot Montre d’Aeronef Type 20 gala event

As already mentioned, the watch is manually-wound and it features Zenith’s pocket watch caliber 5011. The movement is COSC certified and it provides 48 hours of power reserve. Besides hours and minutes, the watch provides small seconds indication through a sub-counter positioned at 9 o’clock, and it informs the wearer about the remaining energy in the barrel, through a power reserve indicator, placed at 3 o’clock.

There are two basic variations of this watch, depending on the choice of a strap:
27.00.2722.723 - brown veal leather
27.95.0022.001 - titanium pin buckle
Author: Marina Milojevic
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