Another layer of complexity is added in that a third grey color must be applied for the counters. If the protection isn’t correctly applied, colors can bleed into each other, ruining the dial.

As the second half of the dial must be painted black, the other white half of the dial is given a protective layer. Whimsical, playful, and certainly polarizing, there’s more than meets the eye when it comes to creating such a singular dial, which presented the teams at the Zenith Manufacture with a new and unprecedented kind of challenge.Ī delicate and long process, the blank dial is first finished entirely in a silvery-white color on the right half, then the black chronograph counters are milled while the rest of the dial is protected with a layer of transparent and colorless lacquer. On one side, the first Chronomaster Revival Lupin The Third edition’s semi-glossy black dial with deep grey counters and golden applied markers and hands, and on the other side, the second edition’s creamy-white dial with contrasting black counters in a panda configuration with beige superluminova. Now, the third and final limited edition in this exceptional collaboration has arrived, and it couldn’t be more unexpected with both dials in one.įeaturing two distinct and asymmetrical halves combining all the elements from both the Zenith chronographs depicted in the first and final episode of the animated series’ first season. The following year, the second white and panda dial version was released. Nearly 50 years after the initial airing of the anime series, Zenith finally turned fantasy into reality in 2019 by producing the Chronomaster Revival Lupin The Third, using the instantly recognizable A384 tonneau-shaped case and recreating the unusual black dial depicted in the first episode. And in the final episode of the first series, Jigen is again portrayed to be wearing another Zenith chronograph, but with a different panda dial that also never existed.

In the very first episode of the animated Lupin The Third series, Daisuke Jigen, the debonair right-hand man and best friend of the title character Arsène Lupin III, is portrayed wearing a watch based on the A384 with a black, grey and gilt dial that had never actually existed. In 2019, Zenith became the first manufacture to produce a watch directly inspired by a depiction in a Japanese manga and anime series.

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