For watch collectors and admirers of beautiful mechanisms, El Primero will always be The First. The original El Primero may no longer be the most precise – that honour goes to last year’s big reveal, the Defy El Primero 21, – but its legendary status is set in stone. As well as adding functions to its star calibre, Zenith systematically incorporates the very latest technology, such as its Zenithium alloy in 2006 and silicon in 2010. Or the El Primero 4031 with its GMT, alarm, striking mechanism and large date display. Maybe the Open, introduced in 2003 and which reveals the mesmerising spectacle of a mechanical heart beating at 36,000 vibrations per hour. It’s hard to know which of the many (more than twenty) versions to single out. Zenith El Primero tweedehands Zenith horloges El Primero tweedehands. The solidity and precision of the 1969 original have been enriched with numerous complications, including a tourbillon, large date, split-seconds mechanism, minute repeater, alarm, retrograde date and jumping seconds. The El Primero is the foundation on which Zenith has built its reputation.
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