Zenith Pilot Type 20 Annual Calendar Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com Zenith's Pilot Type 20 Annual Calendar combines the legendary manufacture's competence in aviation watches and complicated chronographs. While the first Zenith pilot's watch crossed the English Channel in 1909 on the wrist of pioneering French aviator Louis Bleriot. By 1960, with the Cal. 5011 and the Type 20 chronometer, Zenith was entrenched as a pilot's manufacture of reference and a hallowed name in the annals of aviation history. Barely nine years after the release of the Type 20, Zenith's most celebrated product of all time, the automatic-winding El Primero chronograph movement, debuted. The combination of Zenith's aviation heritage and the El Primero's storied precision yields a compelling modern luxury package in the Type 20 Annual Calendar. The 48mm case of the Type 20 Annual Calendar recalls the oversized instrument watches constructed for aviators at the height of mid-twentieth century aviation. Its distinctive coined rectangular chronograph pushers and "onion: crown visually tie this Type 20 to an era when air travel retained all of the romance and air of adventure that inspired earlier generations to take flight. A large alligator leather strap with contrasting white stitching and pin buckle is exceptionally user friendly and completes the vintage effect. Inside the massive case, an El Primero Cal. 4054 annual calendar chronograph adds tremendous watchmaking content to the Type 20. Zenith is a true manufacture that fabricates each