Zenith Watches: The Birth of a Star-Inspired Watchmaking Brand

The birth of the Zenith brand

While searching for a name for a newly developed movement in 1911, Favre-Jacot drew inspiration from gazing at the dizzying array of stars in the night sky, which reminded him of the many interconnected parts of a watch movement. Since his latest move was an improvement on all his previous plans, he decided to name it Zenith - a term that denotes the highest point reached by the celestial sphere. Later, the company hinted at its founder's astronomical inspiration by adding a five-pointed star to the company logo.

Zenith is a low-key, yet respectable brand of high-end watchmaking. Although Zenith is not as wild and high-profile as Panerai, and does not have the dominance of Rolex, it is still respectable in terms of strength. Zenith with a history of more than 150 years, but deservedly Swiss watchmakers, but in our country visibility is not high. Some people say that this may be with Zenith brand positioning, marketing scale, and in the daily exchanges, the discussion of Zenith this brand for a small number of people.

Low-key doesn't mean Zenith doesn't have power. Zenith is a brand that has won more than 1,500 planning awards, has dozens of high-quality in-house movements, and also supplies movements for other high-end watches. In a word: Zenith is a powerful but "low" brand.

Zenith's El Primero movement is legendary

In 1969, Zenith debuted the El Primero caliber, the world's first harmonized active chronograph movement with a balance frame frequency of 36,000 rpm, the only ultra-high frequency, most accurate movement to pinpoint moments to 1/10th of a second.

This movement is one of the most famous movements in the history of watchmaking, as it fully demonstrates the creative genius and profound craftsmanship of Zenith's manufacturing. This Zenith movement has also been supplied to famous watch brands such as Rolex.

In 2011, Zenith commemorated the 40th anniversary of the El Primero caliber with a unique series of new replica 1969s that chose the legendary El Primero movement. the El Primero caliber in this series was named 469.

Zenith Miscellaneous Utilities, Respectable

Zenith's high-end mechanical watch has three major messy functions, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, minute repeater, even the top craft, Zenith has the famous "sesame chain", this skill in addition to Zenith is also Lange, Breguet, and so on a small number of manufacturers can produce.

In 2005, Zenith even launched the Class Traveller Répétition Minutes El Primero with a minute repeater, marking a definite achievement in Zenith's explorations in the field of super-messy functions.

The name of the movement is El Primero 4031, it is made of 744 parts, has 11 hands on the dial, and has at least 33 functions. In addition to the minute repeater function, this watch also has a chronograph, an alarm clock with vibration mode, a date display, and a dual time display.

Zenith, which is low but can be deeply liked by many watch fans, shows that in watchmaking, it is a watch brand that speaks with strength.