The 41mm Zelos Starfighter is named for the the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a futuristic looking fighter-bomber from the 1950s and 1960s that was the first aircraft to simultaneously hold the world speed and altitude records. The slim, angular Zelos lug design is a shout-out to the Starfighter's razor sharp looking wing design that enabled it to break the world speed record, and we see other Starfighter design cues from Zelos here as well, including the pilot watch style triangle with two dots on the twelve o'clock index, and the custom rotor design in the form of a turbine.
Meteorite dials are attention grabbers, and those from Zelos tend to sell out quickly. Not only can meteorite dials keep the wearer's interest as the light plays over them at different angles, showing of the unique Widmanstätten patterns that makes every dial different to the next, but they're fantastic talking points too, especially when someone spots the dial and you get to explain the material used is extra-terrestrial. Zelos have gone one step further here, and have tried something we've never seen before: blue meteorite sub-dials set in a grey meteorite main dial. We think this looks amazing and is a really nicely balanced design with the matching semi-skeletonized blued hands and blue edging on the applied indices, and date window at 6 o'clock.
The stylish good looks of the outside are equally matched with one of the most desirable and reliable Swiss mechanical chronograph movements you can find in a microbrand watch, the high beat 37 jewel ETA 2894-2 in elabore grade. Thanks to this movement choice, surprisingly this mechanical chronograph is thinner than you'd expect and clocks in at just 11mm in height, excluding the scratch resistant boxed sapphire crystal. The rest of the specs are equally good and include Swiss Super-LumiNova BGW9 lume, which glows blue, and a solid link bracelet with quick release pins, screwed links, a really nice taper from 22mm to 18mm, and a double pusher clasp that features a hidden ratcheting micro-adjustment offering four positions with no tools required to make any on the fly micro-adjustments.
