Zenith COLLECTIONS

For a manufacture that has clocked up over 2,300 chronometry prizes, the Chronomaster collection is especially significant. It includes the mythical El Primero caliber, which has been constantly evolving since 1969. This legendary collection now features the most innovative developments alongside contemporary reproductions of the original model.

The Elite collection combines Zenith’s timekeeping expertise with the watchmaking classicism in which it is a past master. These traditional timepieces give pride of place to aesthetic balance, pure lines – and sober, timeless watches.

The Academy bagged a Geneva Grand Prix d’Horlogerie award for its gyroscope module: like nautical instruments, it can defy gravity as the watch moves around with the wrist, without losing any of its precision. Regulated by a fusée and chain mechanism, this superlative timepiece is like none other in history.

The Zenith’s most impressive invention since its legendary El Primero of 1969: Defy El Primero 21, a new chronograph whose turn it now is to herald a chronometric revolution. Its caliber is composed of two movements in one: one to display the time, and the other fully dedicated to a chronograph that is accurate to one hundredth of a second.

Paying tribute to legendary pilots, the Pilot collection respectfully echoes the design of the wrist chronometers that were fashionable in the 1920s, featuring tanned leather straps, cathedral hands, luminous Arabic numerals, and generously-sized timepieces, making them easily readable in the cockpit in their day. An authentic, vibrant tribute to one of the finest chapters in Belle Epoque watchmaking.