![]() ![]() The Original and quite possibly the best. There are strap options, too, and, of course, given its role in the watch, the El Primero gets its moment in the sun through a gaping sapphire case back. Automatic movement caliber El Primero 400, with 31 jewels for 36000 vibrations per hour and 50. Cool as that was and is, it’s an acquired taste, so the new collection has a more mainstream three-link bracelet design. The 1960s model had a laddered design created by specialist Gay Frères, as seen on some of Zenith’s Chronomaster Revival models recently. One area of difference is the bracelet design. The culmination of over 50 years of innovation on the world’s first automatic high-frequency chronograph calibre, endowed with superlative performance. ![]() The new black-dial Chronomaster Original is offered on both a stainless steel bracelet (10,000) and calfskin strap (9,500) and is. ![]() Despite the level of detail, and that its squeezed into a relatively small dial by modern chronograph standards, the read-out is fabulously well balanced and, dare I say it, far clearer than on the Chronomaster Sport. Inside is the high-beat El Primero 3600 caliber, beating at 5 hertz and featuring a 1/10th second chronograph, meaning that the central chronograph hand completes a rotation around the dial every 10 seconds. The inner of these still shows 100 segments, now used to break down the ten seconds it takes for the red hand to complete a full tour of the dial the outer, once a tachymeter, now shows the tenths of a second. New to the design is how the two scales around the outside edge of the dial are used. ![]()
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