Zenith Pays Tribute to 50's Bikers With New Pilot Type 20

The Swiss watchmaker just unveiled its latest pilot's watch, the Pilot Type 20 Chronograph Ton Up Black, but while its roots are in the air, its inspiration is here on earth, on the open road The watch was created as a tribute to the British café racer biker subculture from the 1950s, known as the Ton-Up Boys Zenith unveiled the new timepiece at the recent Distinguished Gentleman's Ride-a motorcycle ride and fundraiser for cancer research and men's mental health on behalf of The Movember Foundation-this past weekend.

The event, which is sponsored by both Zenith watches and Triumph motorcycles, brought out over 12,000 riders showed up in their Sunday's best in over 650 cities worldwide and has raised $5.8 million to date "We've been in the Pilot Collection for quite a while and we wanted to launch a collection for bikers, so we developed this limited-edition Ton Up I want to develop this biker atmosphere because it's a good fit with the watch, which looks vintage as well, and we actually noticed there a lot of these people who are really into cool watches like this" The new timepiece features Zenith's El Primero automatic 4069 caliber with hours and minutes in the center of the black dial and a central chronograph hand and 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock and features 50 hours of power reserve.

The watch has oversized white Super-Luminova Arabic numerals and white hands against a black dial in a 45 mm stainless steel case, making it easy to read when you have your hands on the handle bars The watch comes on a black oily leather nubuck strap with a protective leather lining. . Source