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 ...

Zenith has a new El Primero watch on its hands in continuation of the watchmaker’s year-long celebration of the famous movement’s 50th anniversary. At the beginning of the year, Zenith offered a ...

The subtle differences between one version of an icon and another can make for hours of lively discussion among watch collectors, and Zenith has kept the conversation going with its many iterations of ...

Tonight in New York City, Zenith Watch Company celebrated the 50th anniversary of the famed El Primero chronograph caliber, and globally launched the El Primero Revival A384 watch. The new timepiece ...

I'll be frank that few people "in the watch world" quite understand why Zenith watches are producing timepieces branded with trademarks from the rock & roll band The Rolling Stones. No doubt, the good ...

Baselworld, the biggest watch event of the year, is happening now at the Messe Basel in Basel, Switzerland. We’ve got a team on the ground there to bring you the most exciting releases. Follow our ...

Welcome to Dialed In, Esquire's weekly column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. Zenith’s El Primero movement is the gift that keeps ...

On 10 January 1969, at a press conference in Le Locle, Switzerland, horological history was made. Zenith-Movado unveiled the El Primero, a chronograph watch movement with automatic winding – the first ...

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 ...

In at least one award last year the Zenith Striking 10th was voted best watch of 2010. The cool character was on many people’s minds as it was a highlight of a reinvented brand. The irony of course ...