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Very comprehensive

 

Your experience with it is a whole lot more comprehensive than I could muster in the 20 minutes or so that I had, but my wrist is just too small to pull the Stratos off. It's a well made and a very attractive watch, for sure, and if it was available is something 42mm or less, it would definitely make my list of watches to have. It's robust and feels it...and the gold version was actually very inviting....the mix of gold and carbon black is a good combination IMO.

 

Glad to see you're enjoying yours. I do wonder though if the designers at Zenith tried using that deployant for extended periods before deciding to make that the standard issue on the Stratos. It's one of the most difficult deployants I've encountered across any brand.

 

Richard

 

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Stratos Flyback quick first impression

 
By: rnaden : March 15th, 2013-01:41
Decided to stop by my regular AD today over lunch, and the timing coincided with them packing up a Stratos Flyback to be shipped to a different store. They invited me to just check it out, though I did not want to have them remove the plastic wraps since ...  

Thank you for the impressions ...

 
By: nilomis : March 15th, 2013-04:10
Richard, I share the same impressions that you had. Imposing, big but irresistible (at least to me). About the deployant, I got rid of mine on the first attempt to put on my wrist. Terrible is a soft word for it. Check the review of mine (SS) here: I'm t... 

Very comprehensive

 
By: rnaden : March 15th, 2013-04:33
Your experience with it is a whole lot more comprehensive than I could muster in the 20 minutes or so that I had, but my wrist is just too small to pull the Stratos off. It's a well made and a very attractive watch, for sure, and if it was available is so... 

I don't believe that the tried ...

 
By: nilomis : March 15th, 2013-06:36
Richard, Amazes me how, on all technological fields, designers simple refuses to "look to the other side". The deployant is just a small example of something that should be trivial but is not. If the Zenith designers just "look to the other side" we could... 

Much ado about nothing

 
By: Delamere : March 21st, 2013-00:41
I own a Zenith Retrotimer with the same deployant design, it is easy to get used to and causes no problems in my opinion. Zenith just do some things a little differently I guess. Another looking watch from a fantastic brand!

I did a second try ...

 
By: nilomis : March 21st, 2013-06:53
And the main issue was the strap thickness. After I replaced the original strap (rubber lined) by a regular 23/18mm leather, the deployant works as it should. Not as easy as the JLC ones but ... it works. Cheers, Nilo

re: Stratos

 
By: DRMW : March 15th, 2013-06:54
Thanks for sharing your impressions. Did you press the pushers and see how they feel? It seems like the black dial contrast well with the markers which makes it real legible. -MW

Yes I did

 
By: rnaden : March 15th, 2013-07:27
...not too different from the Captain Chronos which are equipped with the cal 400. It's firm and clicks confidently, but not really as smooth and sturdy as the GO's for example. Richard

All El Primero based ...

 
By: nilomis : March 15th, 2013-07:40
Watches that I have or tried sports the same feeling. Firm. Cheers, Nilo

The Stratos is a very good looking piece....

 
By: Rhyzen : March 15th, 2013-07:55
..... But unfortunately, too big for me too. I honestly wonder when will the trend for large-sized watches stop.