Another notable model came in 2014 in anticipation of the brand’s impressive 150th anniversary. The essential CHRONOMASTER El Primero automatic chronograph in a stainless steel case and bracelet, featuring a silver sunray-patterned dial with the iconic different-coloured chronograph counters. We've seen numerous variations of the El Primero and incarnations of the Defy collection. With the resources of a larger company, Zenith has been able to expand its offerings over the past several years. In the new millennium, the LVMH group purchased Zenith. The brand later unveiled the Elite in 1994, an ultra-thin automatic movement that was the first caliber for which Zenith employed Computer Assisted Design technology.
Thanks to Charles Vermot, one of the watchmakers involved in the development of the El Primero, Zenith was able to produce their signature movement again in 1984, after the height of the quartz craze faded. What we have with the Zenith Chronomaster Sport is a luxury chronograph with an attractive mainstream design but a movement that will impress even the most jaded or seasoned watch enthusiast. Zenith discontinued the production of mechanical movements (including the El Primero) during the Quartz Crisis of the 1970s. Just released by Zenith is the brand new Chronomaster Sport, launching as a duo of ceramic bezel chronographs that feature the newly updated El Primero 3600 calibre. While there continues to be much debate over who was truly the first to release the automatic chronograph, the El Primero was undeniably one of the first and definitively the most precise. In 1969 came the introduction of the iconic El Primero. Zenith accentuates the new colorway and character of the El Primero Chronomaster Revival Safari with a. The Caliber 5011K, which boasted record-breaking precision fit for marine chronometers, arrived in 1960. The epitome of performance and reliability, the El Primero Chronomaster asserts itself as a sports chronograph beating at the impressive rate of 36,000. 50th El Primero Anniversary El Primero A384 Revival. Zenith launched the Caliber 135 in 1948, and it went on to receive over 200 awards for accuracy and design. Efficiency was an initial company goal, and Favre-Jacot created a company that ran exponentially faster than other companies in that time period, and is credited with inventing the concept of the modern-day manufacture. In 1865, Georges Favre-Jacot founded Zenith at the young age of twenty-two, naming the brand after the highest point in the universe.
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