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Sound and Vision: The Zenith Open Power Reserve El Primero Chronomaster

The year was 1969, and one of the last great problems in watchmaking lay unsolved: how to make an automatic, or self-winding, chronograph watch. Though the automatic chronograph has become more common, at the start of 1969 they didn’t yet exist. Zenith changed watchmaking forever when they introduced the watch aptly known as the “El […]

By Adrienne Faurote

MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE CAPTAIN WINSOR ANNUAL CALENDAR

The name Zenith might conjure images of old television sets and radios to a lot of Americans but to watch lovers, it’s a magic word that summons images of one of Switzerland’s most respected manufacturers. Zenith’s history goes all the way back to its founding in 1865 in the Swiss village of Le Locle, where […]

Gyro Time: Zenith Christophe Colomb Watch

Flash back to the years of great horological luxury optimism around 2005 to discover the origin of this interesting Zenithtimepiece. It is a time when high-end watch sales were moving along on a greased track like a fast moving locomotive. The key to the game seemed to be the ability to shock and awe the luxury […]