ZENITH Two-Hand Pocket Watch cal.2511 / Slim Dress Pocket Watch

A slim Zenith-signed pocket watch with two hands, whose design could hardly have less waste in it, has arrived.

Deliberately choosing two hands, without a seconds hand, is a way of signalling to the person in front of you that today you are not watching the clock.

A watch with a seconds hand or a calendar can suggest that you are being chased by time, so in formal settings a simple two-hand watch is generally preferred.

It is why the Calatrava, the Patrimony and the Saxonia get chosen.

Abroad in particular, being bound to the second is considered at odds with elegance — a stricter etiquette than in Japan.

The existence of a slim two-hand pocket watch is itself a mark of standing, and this example is a piece showing genuine care, suited to exactly such occasions.

Because we love watches, perhaps our lives need the ease of taking off a wristwatch now and then and carrying a pocket watch to a drink or a meal.

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