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Subtle nuances of grey, leather touches, contemporary woodwork: the presentation box combines watchmaking tradition with innovation in performance and precision. It was the first brand that launched publicly this combination of complications.Įach issued in a 50-piece limited edition, the three El Primero anniversary watches, as well as the empty cushion designed to accommodate a future 1/1000 th of a second chronograph, are presented in a boxed set that also symbolises Zenith’s evolution and future in the field of high frequency. These numbers correspond to 1/10 of a second interval. On January 10 th 1969, at a press conference held in Le Locle, Zenith announced the new El Primero. The watch should operate a high frequency – 5Hz, or 36000vph. One of them was Zenith – it was 1962.Ī few years later, in the period 1966-1967, the brand’s management decided to bring to the market an ultra-thin automatic chronograph. Several brands were interested in the concept. It seems hard to believe, but at the beginning of the sixties, there were no automatic chronographs. Zenith El Primero Grey Palette – the anniversary box with the three available pieces and a fourth slot available for the 1/1000th of a second chronograph Fifty years of ups and downs – a short history of El Primero Reviews of the individual pieces will follow. To mark the occasion, Zenith launched an anniversary box, the Grey Palette, containing three watches and an empty slot for a fourth piece – a future 1/1000 th of a second chronograph. The first watches were later on available on the market, in October.

Zenith El Primero was announced in January of 1969, three months before what is now Baselworld. Zenith celebrates these days one of the most important chronographs of modern times – the mighty El Primero.

EL PRIMERO 1969 Dial detail Reading Time: 9 minutes

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