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This new model is designed to push forward into modernity. Those who want a Zenith of great provenance should go for the more conventional Chronomasters, or ideally, the A384. The Chronomaster Sport is intentionally a contemporary watch.

That said, I’m unclear as to why commentators are in such a hurry to find historical connections. The Stratos Striking 10th, by comparison, has the familiar Tri-Color dial but with the black bezel. The De Luca is far more utilitarian, and has a lot less El Primero design DNA. In my opinion, the Chronomaster Sport has much more in common with the relatively recent Stratos Flyback Striking 10th. Personally, I don’t find this comparison particularly compelling. It’s worth pointing out, of course, that the bezel is not entirely novel for an El Primero you’d find something similar in the old, somewhat obscure, Zenith De Luca, a comparison that many reviewers, and even Zenith, are apt to make. That’s because this chronograph, unlike almost all others in existence, has a chronograph seconds hand that makes a full rotation around the dial once every ten seconds. Instead of the ordinary, and borderline useless, tachymeter writing you traditionally find on chronographs, you find something far more interesting: a tenth of a second declaration, and, stranger still, a bezel that only counts up to 10, not 60. That marks the beginning of a stylistic change, but the writing on the bezel is at least as profound. You don’t often see bezels this bold outside of divers, with, of course, some notable exceptions.

We first spy the bezel itself, in a gleaming black ceramic that is quite provocative in its own right. There are a few elements that make the new Chronomaster Sport stand out against its dozens of brethren and predecessors, but surprisingly, none so highlight the difference as this simple photo of the bezel. Before I entertain the deeper questions about the Chronomaster Sport, we should first examine it in a vacuum, simply as a watch. The question I have to answer, then, is why this model has such a powerful resonance with fans and whether it even ought to be compared to the Daytona. And yet, despite what may be the birth of a new Zenith icon, the watch is also the subject of controversy, as many have rushed to compare it, sometimes favorably and sometimes not, to the Rolex Daytona. Yes, somehow surpassing watches like the White Birch Grand Seiko and an all-new Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch, we’ve received an incredible degree of interest of this model. The Zenith Chronomaster Sport has, quite unexpectedly (at least to me), become perhaps the most important new watch of 2021 thus far.

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