The first edition of the Lupin The Third Chronomaster sported gold markers and hands while the second edition had silver markers and hands to match the lightness of the dial. The balance is continued in how the hands and applied hour markers offset each other. The line bisecting the dial travels from the hashmark at 6 o’clock and four-fifths of a second down to the corresponding hashmark at 36 and four-fifths of a second.Įven though the dial isn’t symmetrically balanced it is visually balanced with the Zenith Chronograph Automatic El Primero logo on the black side of the dial balancing the shape of the hour counter on the white side. The color split in the dial is perfectly centered between the running seconds subdial at 9 o’clock and the chronograph hour counter at 6 o’clock, though these two dials are different sizes so the dial isn’t split at a 45-degree angle. The dial sports a tachymeter scale that is both white and grey, cleanly managing the meeting point of the two as a continuation of the black and white of the main dial. Each half dial recreates its representative earlier edition faithfully, but seeing them side by side in such a dramatic way almost completely divorces this piece from its predecessors. The dial and corresponding details are split right down the middle diagonally, the upper left half representing the first edition, and the lower right representing the second edition. Zenith Chronomaster A384 Revival Lupin the Third Final Edition One day a coworker of mine, who had emigrated from Japan over a decade prior, sent an image of my doppelganger to the entire office, a character from some seemingly obscure Japanese anime series. Skip ahead a few more years and now I’m too busy with work to dive into any new media. While my world expanded by leaps and bounds in college, and I was exposed to more and more media from around the world, I still never caught the manga and anime bug. My teenage world consisted largely of cars, motorcycles, baseball, snowboarding, and watching shows like Mythbusters or Monster Garage, not necessarily in that order.
But for some reason – perhaps my lack of interested friends and my inability to access the internet consistently until college – I did not fall down the rabbit hole of comics, manga, or even card games like Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokémon. I have heard of a few handfuls of the biggest names thanks to casual mentions or their placement in other popular media. In the extremely popular world of Japanese manga and anime I am essentially clueless because I have next to no exposure to any of the source material behind the most popular properties.
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