by 22-year-old watchmaking apprentice Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle, Switzerland, the company began with the vision of creating the very first, fully-integrated watchmaking house. Zenith is one of Switzerland's old-guard, historic watchmakersįounded as G.F.J & Cie. Operating under the umbrella of the LVMH Group, Zenith today enjoys broad collector popularity and is most recognized for its role in a legendary watchmaking milestone: the race to develop the first automatic chronograph watches. Offering a central display of the hours and minutes, small seconds at 9 o’clock, chronograph with central chronograph hand, 12-hour counter 6 six o’clock, and 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock, a tachymeter scale and date indication between 4 and 5 o’clock, the Chronomaster Revival Manufacture Edition comes with a blue alligator leather strap featuring a protective rubber lining and stainless steel pin buckle.Tracing its inception to 1865, Zenith has long stood among historic and consequetnial watchmakers from Omega to IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre and others. Beating within it at a rate of 36,000 VpH (5 Hz) and with a 50-hour power reserve, is the same movement it would have had had it been made in 1969: the venerable El Primero high-frequency 400 automatic chronograph with column wheel. What makes this edition significant and even more unique is that it represents the final version of the A386 available with the original “Revival” case. The stainless steel case with pump-style pushers is an exact reproduction of the 1969 A386, using the blueprints of the original to preserve the proportions of the iconic chronograph. Inspired by never-released vintage prototypes found in the attic of the Manufacture, the Chronomaster Revival Manufacture Edition features a white-lacquered dial with three counters in three shades of blue, reflecting a previously unknown prototype face from the company archives.
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