Zenith · Family: Pilot Type 20
The Zenith Pilot Type 20 Extra Special 11.1940.679/91.C807 is the 40mm aged-steel version, unveiled in 2017, of the line that pays tribute to the onboard flight instruments Zenith supplied to pioneering aviators in the early 20th century. It runs the in-house automatic Elite 679 caliber with 50 hours of power reserve. Cazador has no verified price observations (n=0) for this reference as of today.
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Zenith was founded in 1865 in Le Locle, Switzerland, and belongs to the small group of watch manufactures that produce their own movements from start to finish. Its link to pioneering aviation dates back to 1909, when Louis Blériot carried a Zenith onboard instrument on his historic flight across the English Channel — the episode that gives the Pilot Type 20 family its name and visual identity, including the oversized 'onion' crown designed to be operated with flight gloves on.
The 40mm aged-steel Extra Special version, unveiled at Baselworld 2017, offers a more compact reading of the Pilot Type 20 collection compared with the 45mm versions also in the catalog, without giving up the family's signature oversized Arabic numerals or luminescent 'cathedral' hands.
This reference, the 11.1940.679/91.C807, runs the in-house Elite 679 caliber, an automatic movement with 27 jewels and 126 components delivering 50 hours of power reserve at a 4 Hz frequency. The case back, in the same aged steel, carries Zenith's historical crest with its stars and the manufacture's founding date, 1865.
[UNVERIFIED: we do not confirm whether this specific slate-grey dial configuration remains in active catalog as of July 2026].
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It refers to the onboard instruments Zenith supplied to pioneering aviation, with a documented link back to Louis Blériot's 1909 flight across the English Channel.
At Baselworld 2017, as a more compact reading of the Pilot Type 20 collection compared with the 45mm versions also available.
50 hours, with 27 jewels and 126 components, in an in-house automatic movement built by Zenith.
It's an oversized 'onion' design inherited from historical aviation instruments, meant to be operable even with flight gloves on.
Yes, to 100 meters, a generous figure for a watch with aviation rather than diving origins.
Yes. Zenith, founded in 1865, is one of the few Swiss houses that designs and builds its own movements from start to finish, without relying on outside suppliers for its calibers.