ZENITH

Founded in Le Locle in 1865 by a visionary watchmaker, Georges Favre-Jacot, Zenith earned swift recognition for the precision of its chronometers with which it has won 2,333 chronometry prizes in a century and a half of existence: an absolute record in terms of pocket watches, onboard timers and wristwatches. Having earned fame thanks to its legendary El Primero caliber—an integrated automatic column-wheel chronograph movement launched in 1969 and endowed with a high frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour that ensures short-time measurements accurate to the nearest 1/10th of a second—the Manufacture Zenith has since developed over 600 movement variations.