Its innovative features – a rate of 36,000 vibrations per hour, integrated column-wheel construction, a central rotor mounted on ball bearings and over 50 hours of operating autonomy (a real feat for such a high frequency) – made it the most accurate chronograph in the world and the only one capable of measuring short times to 1/10th of a second. Continuously enriched with new technical and aesthetic advances, the undeniable icon of precision has been available for half a century in the Manufacture’s collections.įlashback to the late 1960s, marked by a horological revolution: the birth of the El Primero, the first ever automatic chronograph. Since January 10th 1969, the date when the famous El Primero (‘the first’ in Spanish) chronograph was presented, Zenith has been brightly glowing in the firmament of high frequency. Meanwhile, a still-empty fourth cushion sits ready to welcome the next achievement of Zenith in the universe of very high frequency: 1/1000th of a second. Presented in a box mingling technology with tradition, this collector’s trio with ‘signature’ counters panders to every desire: vintage, classic or modern.
The anniversary set contains three El Primero models retracing the technical and aesthetic evolution of this precision legend: A reissue faithful to the first El Primero model of 1969 a Chronomaster El Primero with optimized movement and a Defy El Primero 21 to 1/100th of a second: the 50-piece limited-edition trilogy ‘conjugates’ high frequency in several tenses. Celebrating the glorious 50th anniversary of the legendary El Primero high-frequency chronograph, Zenith has created an anniversary boxed set containing three chronographs with emblematic tricolour counters.
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