Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Zenith El Primero. Imagine a ...

The Zenith El Primero was launched just over 50 years ago, on January 10th, 1969. At the time, the company was still known as Zenith-Movado, and it had spent seven years developing the El Primero’s ...

Brands often speak of a “hero product”. For Zenith, it’s not a watch but a movement — in fact, the El Primero is so synonymous with the brand as to be all-consuming. Launched 50 years ago as the most ...

The Zenith Defy Skyline is getting the El Primero treatment – the line now has a chronograph model, using the state-of-the-art version of the high frequency movement that made Zenith famous when it ...

Watches don’t get much more vintage-inspired than the new Chronomaster Revival A385 chronograph from the storied Swiss watchmaker Zenith. A faithful throwback to the brand’s legendary 1969 El Primero, ...

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With this release, Zenith has produced two limited edition Defy Extreme Chroma watches made using both titanium and ceramic components combined with a rainbow gradient PVD finish over all of the El ...

Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. The recreation of vintage-inspired watches from an ...

Porsche’s 911, the Leica M series, perhaps the Fender Stratocaster: history is poorly served with consumer durables that have evolved over multiple decades without ever shirking their DNA or being ...

Timex doesn’t go around advertising this, but the brand makes some of the best affordable homage watches on the market. Now, Timex is adding another affordable icon homage to its ranks with the latest ...

Zenith’s El Primero was once considered a mechanical marvel. Now, it’s achieved cult classic status. By Nancy Hass The world’s first high-frequency automatic chronograph was introduced in 1969 by ...