Zenith has adopted the avid and growing community of vintage-watch aficionados in the past couple of decades, releasing several modern re-editions based on its oldest El Primero versions from 1969. The new Chronomaster Revival Liberty, a 150-piece limited edition exclusively for North America, riffs on among the most popular of those retro-style timepieces, the A384 […]
Read MoreSwiss luxury watch maker Zenith teams up with jeweller Charles Fish to offer you a pop-up watch shop in Canary Wharf from 18-21 March 2013 at East London. Swiss watch home Zenith watches, best-known for its strong and highly accurate El Primero chronograph watches, takes its precision watches to East London with the arrival of […]
Read MoreZenith 2014 again takes off with its El Primero chronograph caliber and its Elite automatic caliber. But as Jean-Fred Dufour told me it will be a calmer year. Honestly who would have Zenith expected performing so strong after those crazy years with the former CEO Thierry Nataf. Since Jean-Fred Dufour took over Zenith five years ago […]
Read MoreThe Zenith Elite 6150 is equipped with a new manufacture movement: the Elite 6150 calibre. This mechanical automatic movement is the contemporary version of the Elite base movement developed in the early 1990s. In response to the demands of our times Zenith has chosen to enhance its performance as well as its versatility by means […]
Read MoreYesterday, this interesting announcement was distributed through the LVMH network. That´s not a surprise for ma at all. Honestly I already thought that LVMH would announce this change much earlier… This is the official LVMH press release… Having successfully led the integration of Bulgari within LVMH, Mr. Francesco Trapani has decided to relinquish his operational duties […]
Read MoreMy full respect – chapeau! – to the work of CEO Jean-Fred Dufour and his entire team! Zenith surprises me again and again and I am sure there is still more to come. You will discover the Zenith novelties being presented on three seperate pages, so don´t miss to continue to read the post […]
Read MoreOld vs. new … Simply have a look and tell me what you think… In the late 1990s the French Ministry of Defence was seeking for a watch for its fighter pilots. The goal was to find a chronograph capable of maintaining excellent precision even in extreme conditions of use – including violent accelerations from […]
Read MoreI was in Le Locle in the Swiss Jura Mountains yesterday and I talked to Aldo Magada about Zenith, “his” watchmaking pearl. Click on “read more” to get the story … It was fun and cool to come back to Zenith HQ in Le Locle yesterday. The purpose of traveling there was Hans Knauss, a […]
Read MoreI hate to write this, but Zenith still is underestimated and not yet recognised for its full potential. But things will change now… I talked to Aldo Magada, the CEO of Zenith, and by listening to my conversation you will be able to discover some pretty interesting things concerning the future of this watchmaking […]
Read MoreFinally I can officially write and show you the Zenith Heritage Cronometro TIPO CP-2. Until today Zenith kept this watch strictly under lock. Those who follow me on Instagram of course did see the new and the old CP2 much earlier this year. There it is! The Zenith Heritage Cronometro TIPO CP-2 is here. In my eyes one of the […]
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