Zenith

Zenith is the only watchmaker on earth legally entitled to print the word PILOT on a dial, and it has been that way for over a century. The brand registered PILOTE in French in 1888 and the English PI…

The Zenith Chronomaster Original is the watch that most directly answers the question every El Primero shopper eventually asks: which one looks and feels closest to the 1969 original without being a v…

The Zenith Chronomaster Revival is the modern faithful reissue of the three 1969 El Primero references that started it all: the A384, the A385, and the A386. These are not reinterpretations with bigge…

The Zenith Chronomaster Sport is the watch we point to when a customer asks for a serious steel chronograph without the Daytona waiting list. Launched in January 2021, it wraps Zenith's El Primero 360…

The Zenith Defy El Primero 21 is the watch that took the 1969 El Primero idea to its logical extreme: a mechanical chronograph that measures and displays 1/100th of a second, with a central chronograp…

The Zenith Defy Extreme is the muscled-up, tool-grade evolution of the Defy 21, launched in 2021 to put Zenith's 1/100th-of-a-second chronograph inside a case built to survive real abuse. It is a 45mm…

The Zenith Defy is the rare sports watch family with a legitimate claim to being ahead of its time twice. The first Defy wristwatch, reference A3642, landed in 1969 with an octagonal case, a fourteen …

The Zenith Defy Revival is the modern reissue line that brings back the very first Defy, the A3642 that Zenith launched in 1969, the same year the brand introduced the El Primero chronograph movement.…

The Defy Skyline is Zenith's answer to the integrated-bracelet steel sports watch, and it does something none of its rivals can: it runs a 1/10th-of-a-second hand on a serially produced automatic. Lau…

One of the last fully vertically integrated Swiss manufactures, founded by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in 1865. Zenith's El Primero (1969) was the world's first integrated automatic chronograph mo…

The El Primero is the movement that kept Zenith alive, and it is one of the few watch stories where the legend checks out against the paperwork. Introduced to the press on January 10, 1969 as caliber …

The Zenith Elite is the watch that saved Zenith's watchmaking credibility a second time. Everybody knows the El Primero story, the chronograph movement smuggled out and hidden in an attic while quartz…