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May I interrupt myself and say I love vintage Defys? Give me a Saturday night with nothing to do and I will google vintage Defy and just hang out with them for a long time. I love those indices, like if R2D2 drew himself as a kid, and those iconic dial colors – root-beer brown, the red one like cooked tomato paste, the office-park beige. Why didn't my dad have one of these instead of a Timex? How one wishes to go back in time to shake people. As any good Zenith lover will tell you, and I guess I am considering joining their ranks, the actual Defy emerged in 1969, three years before the Royal Oak. One doesn't want to go so far as to say the particular Royal Maple was copying the Escape, especially since honestly a lot of watches from this time have a similar tough/sporty/futuristic solidity vibe, but anyone who wants to genuflect at the Royal Oak history should at least pause at the Defy. (They might not, but they should. ) I've got to quote collector Greg Selch here: "Defy was Zenith's way of saying, 'Are you going to run under any circumstances? '" The Ditch Midnight, which came out in 2019, seemed to be a twist on this theme: "Are a person going to be wearable but also noticeable and praiseworthy under any circumstances? " And yet it's still such a hearty, substantial watch. You don't quite want to drop typically the Defy Midnight off the building to see what happens to it as you might with a 1969 Leave behind, but you could probably throw it off a wall. And then pick it up and wear it to the opera.
The Defy Midnight comes in two versions: Just diamond indices or full-bore bling with the gemstone bezel. The Defy Borealis only comes with all the diamonds; the bold color demands it.

Now it's time to talk about gemstones.

No, I did not start loving watches the first time I discovered that Breguet invented the tourbillon. Nor the very first time I found out that Huygens invented the balance spring faster than Hooke because he just worked harder. Nor the first time I realized how hard it was to put a balance bridge, hair spring, and balance back into a watch movement - so hard, in fact , that it should always be done by someone other than me. I started loving watches because the first nice watch I ever felt watch-nerdy-adjacent about was a diamond-y 28mm Rolex Oyster Perpetual, at a mall within suburban Sacramento. Today, I really like all gem action on a watch. It doesn't have to be expensive diamonds. I just like to witness the way light travels on gemstones around a watch's indices or even bezel. If they are synthetic sapphires - I will never forget an individual, pink Hublot - this is okay, too.
The Escape fits into any category I like very much: Masculine things that are slightly feminine and feminine things that are slightly masculine, stuff that sparkle but are substantial. In this category I would also put the Hublot Big Bang Steel Diamonds, and the Vacheron Constantin Stainless Steel Diamond 33mm Overseas Automatic, and also the Royal Pine Self-Winding 50th Anniversary. In the comments below, please let me know what else you think belongs in this pantheon.


If you were a person who wanted the Big Bang Steel Diamonds and preferred it to this watch (or the plain blue Defy) then I might say follow your rubber strap dreams wherever they will take anyone. But if you had been dreaming of often the Royal Walnut Self-Winding 50th Anniversary or the Vacheron Constantin Stainless Steel Gemstone 33mm Abroad Automatic, I might suggest you actually take the time to try on this view. It's got a lot going for it and will save you tons of money, which you can then Venmo to me like a kind of finder's fee, I hope I don't end up spending all of it on COVID tests and Tylenol.