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Zenith Watches

Founded in 1865 by 22-year-old Georges Favre-Jacot, Zenith makes watches at the very pinnacle of quality and precision. As well as being the creator of the first integrated automatic chronograph movement, the El Primero, Zenith led the way in bringing together all watchmaking professions under the convenience of one roof. Read more
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Zenith Defy 49.9000.670/77.R782 410345
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Defy
49.9000.670/77.R782

Box
Papers
Year 2020
£4,500
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3100.3600/69.M3100 424495

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3100.3600/69.M3100

Box
Papers
Year 2022
£7,200
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3300.3604/21.M3300 424466

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3300.3604/21.M3300

Box
Papers
Year 2024
£5,350
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero 03.A384.400/21.M384 426495

Zenith
Chronomaster El Primero
03.A384.400/21.M384

Box
Papers
Year 2021
£5,750
Zenith Pilot 29.2430.4069/21.C800 403819

Zenith
Pilot
29.2430.4069/21.C800

Box
Papers
Year 2018
£3,350
Zenith Defy 95.9000.670/51.M9000 367851
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Defy
95.9000.670/51.M9000

Box
Papers
Year 2023
£4,250
Zenith Defy Xtreme 95.9100.9004/01.I001 350671
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Defy Xtreme
95.9100.9004/01.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
£9,750
Zenith Defy 16.9200.670/03.MI001 419704

Zenith
Defy
16.9200.670/03.MI001

Box
Papers
Year 2023
£6,350
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.4037/01.C492 416390

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.4037/01.C492

Box
Papers
Year 2016
£5,250
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3119.3600/56.M3100 390716

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3119.3600/56.M3100

Box
Papers
Year 2024
£6,350
Zenith Defy 97.9300.3620/79.I001 398380
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Defy
97.9300.3620/79.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2025
£9,850
Zenith Defy Xtreme 96.0529.4000/51.M533 367533
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Defy Xtreme
96.0529.4000/51.M533

Box
Papers
Year 2012
£5,950
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3119.3600/56.M3100 361932

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3119.3600/56.M3100

Box
Papers
Year 2025
£6,950
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3100.3600/21.C822 339660

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3100.3600/21.C822

Box
Papers
Year 2023
£6,750
Zenith Defy 86.0516.4021/01.M517 324553

Zenith
Defy
86.0516.4021/01.M517

Box
Papers
Year 2012
£7,950
Zenith El Primero 20.0210.400 297762
Vintage

Zenith
El Primero
20.0210.400

Box
Papers
Year 1999
£3,750
Zenith El Primero 10.2260.400/69.R573 246991

Zenith
El Primero
10.2260.400/69.R573

Box
Papers
Year 2019
£6,950
Although it is now one of the most prestigious and internationally acclaimed watch brands in the world, Zenith was not officially given its current name until 1911, 46 years after its founding. The company had originally been set up in 1865, in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Le Locle, where it still makes watches today. It was founded by watchmaker Georges Favre-Jacot at the extraordinary age of just 22. Despite his masterful horological skills (focused on precision pocket watches until the 20th century), Georges’ most important contribution to watch history was the establishment of the Zenith manufacture, which was an entirely new concept. Previously, artisan watchmakers worked independently from their homes, but Georges brought them together in a single workshop for the first time, hugely facilitating the company’s ability to increase efficiency and quality control. Georges won numerous awards for his creations during his lifetime, including the gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, and he retired in 1911 after endowing the company to his descendants, along with the name Zenith. The story goes that after creating a particularly magnificent movement, Georges was struck by the poetic similarity between a well-functioning watch and the motion of the heavenly bodies: zenith worked as both an astronomical term and as an homage to the giddy heights of perfection to which watchmakers could aspire. By 1925, the company employed 1,000 workers and was making a range of highly sought after timepieces, clocks and instruments, as well as watches. In 1948, it unveiled the Calibre 135, a universally praised chronometer with a small seconds function. But perhaps the most distinguished moment in the history of the brand came in early 1969, when it was one of three competing brands in the race to complete the first ever automatic chronograph movement. All three finished almost simultaneously, but despite ongoing debate about the true first, the manufacture dubbed its creation El Primero, and continues to maintain that it was the winner. (Interesting fact: El Primero is not in fact Spanish, as many people assume, but rather means first in Esperanto.) Regardless of its relative position, El Primero was undeniably a brilliant invention, oscillating at an extraordinary 36,000 vibrations per hour (the others were only 28,000), and able to measure time to the nearest tenth of a second. Although the creation of El Primero also coincided with the start of the quartz crisis, during which Zenith was forced to shut down all operations on mechanical movements, it also proved to be the brand’s saviour in the aftermath, when it was able to sell the extremely desirable movement to other brands in the 1980s and beyond. Amazingly, the vital plans, parts and tools to make El Primero had to be hidden by an employee at the height of the crisis to save them from destruction—imagine the company’s gratitude when he returned them after the danger had passed! Once back on its feet, the manufacture quickly re-found its dominant position in the luxury watch industry, and the brand joined the LVMH group in 2000. Zenith watches have been worn in the most diverse circumstances, from extreme conditions (Roald Amundsen wore one when he became the first man to reach the South Pole, as did Felix Baumgartner on his 2012 record- and sound-breaking skydive) to austere ones (Mahatma Gandhi kept his for his whole life, even after giving up most other worldly possessions). With its 150th anniversary in 2015, the innovation and technical prowess that has characterised the company’s history shows no sign of slowing.
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