![]() My teenage world consisted largely of cars, motorcycles, baseball, snowboarding, and watching shows like Mythbusters or Monster Garage, not necessarily in that order. But for some reason – perhaps my lack of interested friends and my inability to access the internet consistently until college – I did not fall down the rabbit hole of comics, manga, or even card games like Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokémon. I have heard of a few handfuls of the biggest names thanks to casual mentions or their placement in other popular media. For more information, please visit the extremely popular world of Japanese manga and anime I am essentially clueless because I have next to no exposure to any of the source material behind the most popular properties. And we hope that the new references, just like the new Defy Revival A3691, will not be limited editions and will be available worldwide. It would be wrong not to expect Revivals of the Defy A36XX models with dials in various colours the brand used in the past, like turquoise-blue or champagne. What is important is that by placing A3692 in the permanent collection, Zenith opens up a vault of possibilities. Visually, the Defy Revival A3691 only differs from the earlier Revival A3642 in dial colour. This automatic calibre with central seconds and date (with a quickset feature) was developed by Zenith in the 1990s, it is built with 27 jewels and beats at 28,800vph, and it delivers 50 hours of power reserve. The caseback reveals the already mentioned Elite 670 automatic calibre, which is nicely decorated. The glass is sapphire crystal front and back. ![]() The hands are shaped like the original, with a sweeping central second with a distinctive luminous paddle tip. The date window is positioned at 4:30, revealing a white disc with a black date. The characteristic rectangular hour markers are faceted, rhodium-plated and polished each is marked by a neat dot of Super-LumiNova, to facilitate reading the time in the dark. The main difference with the A3691 is the funky ruby-red dial, with a colour that gets darker close to the outer edge, where the minutes and seconds track is printed in white. Zenith marked 1971 with vibrant dial colours that would become an essential part of the brand’s history, and this Revival piece celebrates just that with a deep red dial. This time it is A3691, a reproduction of the 1971 watch, which becomes the first Defy Revival model in the permanent catalogue. So far the Zenith Defy collection has offered just one “revived” timepiece, the 2022 boutique-only limited edition A3642 today, the brand reveals another addition to the family. Some of these references inspired the contemporary Zenith Revival series in its Chronomaster and Defy collections. The peak years for the CCR were 1969-1971, much like Zenith, when the company introduced the El Primero automatic movement and a few models that we now consider culturally, historically and aesthetically significant. One of their tracks, “Fortunate Son”, was added to the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry list of sound recordings that “ are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important“. CCR was an American rock band named among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time by Rolling Stone it is worth finding the time and getting acquainted with the band’s work. Until recently, the only revival we were familiar with was called CCR, as in Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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