160th<\/a>, ZENITH returns with a makeover for one of its favourite signatures: the CHRONOMASTERS Sport model. But not only does the CHRONOMASTER Sport get a new look, it also has a new beating heart, one in the form of the El Primero 3600.<\/p>\nWhen the original El Primero movement was introduced in 1969, not only was it the world\u2019s first automatic chronograph, but it also set a new standard of precision in mechanical watchmaking. While chronographs of that era were made of a combination of a timekeeping movement and the chronograph complication (this adds height and increased interfaces of the parts), the El Primero is a unified system of the two. As an integrated system, it ran at 36,000 vibrations per hour (5Hz); able to measure to 1\/10th of a second.<\/p>\n
In 2019, the improved El Primero 3600 came onto the scene and you can see its complexity (blue column wheel, horizontal clutch, a silicon escape wheel) via the openworked sapphire dial of the CHRONOMASTER Sport Skeleton. The tri-colour overlapping counters remain and hearken to the original 1969 El Primero. Sweeping the face are the baton-style applied markers and faceted hands that glow in the dark thanks to the Super-LumiNova coating.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also ZENITH’s new tool-free folding clasp that allows for micro-adjustments and the watches are water resistant at 10 ATM. Available in four versions: two stainless steel cases in either a green ceramic bezel with grey-toned counters, and a black ceramic bezel with the grey, anthracite and blue tri-colour counters; an 18-carat rose gold case, with a black ceramic bezel, and finally, a 10-piece limited edition rose gold case that’s set with 50 baguette-cut diamonds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After last year’s celebration of its 160th, ZENITH returns with a makeover for one of its favourite signatures:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,28477,1233,28052,1748,37884],"class_list":["post-71060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-timepiece","tag-watches","tag-watches-and-wonders-2026","tag-watches-and-wonders-geneva-2026","tag-zenith"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116626733447165739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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