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Zenith El Primero Synopsis Bracelet (03.2170.4613/02.M2170)

Nice watch, good service, excellent tracking.

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Review by Durk D, From Espana Terque

Zenith El Primero Chronomaster Lady Slate (16.2150.4062/91.C760)

FAST GREAT!!

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Review by christina brown-treer, From USA New Jersey

Zenith Defy Classic Chronograph Aero Watch 86.0526.4000/01-C649

I like the Zenith Defy Classic watch overall but it has too many buttons that are not used for setting the watch. It also is a little bulky. The appearance is flawless and it wil make a good gift for a guy. The price was also reasonable.

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Review by Haley S, From Norway Lorenskog

This new mechanical automatic movement is the contemporary version of the Elite base movement developed in the early 1990s - an ultra-thin calibre that earned the title "Best Movement of the Year" when presented at the Basel Fair in 1994. The Zenith engineers and developers have enhanced its performance, as well as its versatility by means of a minimum 100-hour power reserve (by adding a second barrel), a broader 30 mm diameter, along with a central sweep-seconds hand. They have also been careful to preserve the slender nature of a movement comprising 195 assembled parts but measuring a mere 3.92 mm thick!
Powering central hour, minute and seconds hands, the Elite 6150 calibre beats at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour.

The first timepiece to house the new Elite calibre, the Elite 6150 model features an entirely redesigned ultra-thin case of which the 42 mm diameter, a first for Zenith, will become a new benchmark size for the brand. This new ultra-thin steel case redesigned in a pebble shape features slim, flowing lines accentuated by tapered, slightly sloping lugs. Water-resistant to a depth of 30 metres, the case of the Elite 6150 reveals through its transparent back the mechanism in motion and its oscillating weight adorned with a Côtes de Geneve motif.

The timeless classicism of this timepiece exuding an inherent sense of elegance continues on the display side with a cambered silver-toned dial punctuated by slender baton-type hands. In a striking trompe-l'oeil effect, the long, slender hour-markers hollowed out to form delicate grooves create a distinct sense of depth.
These subtle touches are matched by a rubber-lined alligator strap fitted with a comfortable triple-blade folding clasp.

Perpetual calendar, ultra-thin, large power reserve or tourbillon watches are just a few of the prestigious, sought-after types of timepieces that are usually accompanied by tags covered with figures… that are not their reference numbers. By definition, every increase in complexity entails additional costs and thus has repercussions on the price. However inexorable this rule may appear, there do happen to be some notable exceptions.

An ultra-thin watch is not necessarily the exclusive preserve of ultra-thin movement specialists. Longines offers one of its oldest models, the Grande Classique, in a self-winding version at an unbeatable price. This modestly sized timepiece houses a generic movement that is pleasingly compact and slim, enabling this reliable excellent value-for-money timepiece to measure up at just 7 mm thick.

While Frederique Constant's Slimline certainly lives up to its name, its tourbillon version is the one that attracts the most attention. This is in fact by far the least expensive tourbillon on the market and has been since its launch. This performance may be attributed to its steel case, which is unusual for a complication as prestigious as this, as well as its 'motor'. Manufactured in Geneva by the brand itself, its movement has a silicon escapement of which the rotations may be admired through the now traditional dial opening.

The perpetual calendar generally resists any form of democratisation. Montblanc decided that there was nothing inevitable about this, and its Meisterstuck Heritage Perpetual Calendar has become an emblematic piece. By far the least expensive perpetual calendar on the market, it is equipped with a basic ETA movement coupled with a Dubois-Depraz module in a streamlined steel case. But if the recipe were just as simple as these ingredients, others would have done the same thing. Montblanc therefore probably decided to apply extreme frugality to this model in order to make an impression.

Fans of the automated calendar will love the annual calendar. The perpetual knows the length of every month, including all the months of February. The annual regards February as a 20--day month and requires but a single, modest adjustment to get the month of March going on the right foot. Zenith offers an extremely competitive version, and yet, the brand has not skimped on what it has to offer. The Captain Winsor Annual Calendar features the inventions of Ludwig Oechslin. The watchmaker/historian/inventor has simplified the mechanism and Zenith has mounted it on an El Primero movement, resulting in an elegant, very comprehensive watch.

Eight days. A number that conveys a special meaning in watchmaking. It is the magic threshold of truly comfortable running time, which means you can change watch every week without having to wind it. For years, Eberhard has been using a reworked version of the 7001 ETA movement equipped with an XL barrel that lasts this long without causing too much damage to the wallet.

Its name is somewhat deceptive, but the Vintage PW1 Repetition Minutes by Bell & Ross is the most affordable chiming watch on the market. This statement comes with just a couple of asterisks. The first is that PW stands for Pocket Watch, meaning that this model with its silver alloy case is designed to be worn in the pocket. The second is that as far as minute repeater is concerned, it is actually a five-minute repeater. But it definitely chimes!

This one also rings, and loudly at that. In fact, very loudly. Vulcain has long since made the alarm its trademark. Thanks to this long-standing practice and clever industrial organisation, it offers the most effective alarm watches on the market - in terms of both price and intensity. Top of the list - the 50s Presidents' Watch line offers very appealing aesthetics as well as a range of diameters, colours and unrivalled functionalities.

True to its values of daring, authenticity and pleasure, Zenith has signed in 2014 a partnership as official timekeeper of the Spindrift racing team, led by skippers Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard.
Designed to beat the most formidable crewed ocean records, maxi trimaran Spindrift 2 has already set ten records around the world since its launch, including the Trophee Jules Verne. On Sunday November 2nd, she will cross the start line of the Route du Rhum, the legendary solo transatlantic race that takes place every four years between Saint-Malo and Pointe-a-Pitre, with Yann Guichard at the helm.

In its capacity as official timekeeper for the Spindrift racing team, notably during the 2014 Route du Rhum, it was quite natural for Zenith to enrich its El Primero line with a timepiece equipped with a chronograph function in tribute to this exceptional human adventure.

The understated yet technical dial of the El Primero Stratos Spindrift racing has two particularities. The first is the opening onto the escapement at 10 o'clock, while the second lies on the inside face of the inner bezel ring bearing the inscription "Spindrift racing" at 12 o'clock. It consists of the telemetric scale serving to calculate the distance of a visible and audible phenomenon. The inscription and the team logo engraved on the oscillating weight bring to mind the connection between this top of the range sports watch and the forthcoming sailing challenges both on Lake Leman and on the oceans around the globe.

The automatic El Primero 4061 is equipped with a lever and escape-wheel in silicon and a column wheel, a sure token of high-quality calibres. It is fitted inside a 45mm case, waterresistant to 100m, equipped with a rotating bezel and available in two different two-tone options: in rose gold and DLC titanium, enhanced with a black dial, or completely black, in DLC steel with a carbon fibre dial. These two resolutely masculine versions are coated in DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon), giving the watch its spectacular matt black colour as well as considerable hardness and resistance to scratches.

The flexibility and robustness of the strap stem from its design: a rubber core into which a thick, structured fibre fabric is inserted.

Ian Fleming, From Russia, with Love

The watch in question belonged to Nash, one of the most dangerous SMERSH killers. James Bond manages to take it from him at the end of the story. So, gadget or not, what about the moon-phase indicator? Or in other words, does it help to know the moon's phases? This is a huge debate and one that has preoccupied all kinds of more or less informed scientists for centuries. Here for example are two proven scientific phenomena that open the door to all sorts of interpretations: 

- Moon rays penetrate the earth more deeply than their solar counterparts.

- The earth's magnetic field diminishes before the full moon and increases afterwards.

In the first case, it is in agriculture (and in bio-dynamics in particular) that the phenomenon has been most closely examined by establishing calendars that indicate the best periods for sowing, planting and harvesting according to the different moon phases. 

In the second, it appears that certain migratory animal species use magnetic variations to establish a virtual geographical map and thus find their way when they are on the move. 

Going back to watchmaking. Contrary to the month, the hour or the minute, which are human inventions, the day and lunar period are natural time cycles. It is therefore logical that they were the first to be reproduced by man with the clocks and pendulums that appeared in the Middle Ages. Remember that at this time, common mortals did not know how to read, write or count: these cycles therefore had to be indicated analogically. For the day, it is easy for somebody illiterate to understand that the progression of a single hand going in the direction of the top of the dial (zenith) in the morning, and its descent to the bottom in the afternoon, corresponds to the path of the sun.

As regards the longer and therefore less understandable cycle of the moon, people sought to reproduce as faithfully as possible - also by analogy - what they could see happening in the sky. The most commonly used manner up to now is to make the moon move from left to right in a window of a particular shape. Usually, a wheel with 59 teeth (2 x 29.5 days) is hidden behind this, thus completing a rotation in 59 days, featuring two moons appearing one after the other in the window. 

However, it is important to recall that the exact length of a lunar period is not 29.5 but 29.53 days. There is therefore an error of 0.03 days per cycle, which has to be corrected by a day every two and a half years. Other mechanisms that are more sophisticated and reserved for high-end watches require only one correction every century, or less. It should be noted that, very selfishly, this system only works for half the Earth: the Northern hemisphere. Indeed, in our part of the world, the moon is said to be a liar: it forms a D when it rises and a C when it decreases, and that is what is seen in the window. On the other hand, for an observer in the Southern hemisphere, thus upside down, it is exactly the contrary! Curiously, a Girard-Perregaux watch with a double moon phase designed in the 1980s and which corrected this "injustice" was only a mild success. 

Finally, if there were any doubt as to the influence of moon phases on our human behaviour, the numerous moon-related expressions in various languages would certainly not exist. Moreover, there are countless examples of phenomena that we attribute to the most important moment in the cycle: the full moon… beware of werewolves! So the watch that 007 helped himself to was in fact much more than a gadget!

Willy Schweizer is Curator of the Girard-Perregaux Heritage.