Zenith

Decided to stop by my regular AD today over lunch, and the timing coincided with them packing up a Stratos Flyback to be shipped to a different store. They invited me to just check it out, though I did not want to have them remove the plastic wraps since ...  

Richard, I share the same impressions that you had. Imposing, big but irresistible (at least to me). About the deployant, I got rid of mine on the first attempt to put on my wrist. Terrible is a soft word for it. Check the review of mine (SS) here: I'm t... 

Your experience with it is a whole lot more comprehensive than I could muster in the 20 minutes or so that I had, but my wrist is just too small to pull the Stratos off. It's a well made and a very attractive watch, for sure, and if it was available is so... 

Richard, Amazes me how, on all technological fields, designers simple refuses to "look to the other side". The deployant is just a small example of something that should be trivial but is not. If the Zenith designers just "look to the other side" we could... 

I own a Zenith Retrotimer with the same deployant design, it is easy to get used to and causes no problems in my opinion. Zenith just do some things a little differently I guess. Another looking watch from a fantastic brand!

And the main issue was the strap thickness. After I replaced the original strap (rubber lined) by a regular 23/18mm leather, the deployant works as it should. Not as easy as the JLC ones but ... it works. Cheers, Nilo

Thanks for sharing your impressions. Did you press the pushers and see how they feel? It seems like the black dial contrast well with the markers which makes it real legible. -MW

...not too different from the Captain Chronos which are equipped with the cal 400. It's firm and clicks confidently, but not really as smooth and sturdy as the GO's for example. Richard

Watches that I have or tried sports the same feeling. Firm. Cheers, Nilo

HAGWE rnaden! -MW

..... But unfortunately, too big for me too. I honestly wonder when will the trend for large-sized watches stop.