The series employed under this collection are Sport, Original, Revival, and El Primero Open.
The identity of a timepiece from the Zenith Chronomaster is a set of chronographs stamped on the dial. The famed movement, El Primero was fitted inside this collection and to this day houses inside the Chronomaster’s case. Taking its influences from the 60s and 70s, the Chronomaster collection bifurcates the art of watchmaking with simplicity.
This marked the unprecedented growth of the Chronomaster collection and the El Primero with timepieces such as Chronomaster Open, Chronomaster Sport, and Chronomaster Revival. First launched in 1994, the Chronomaster collection was the first one to display the El Primero movement with a sapphire crystal case back. Short- and long-cycle time measurements ensure precision to 1/10 th of a second.Īnd, in keeping with the elusive spirit, the Chronomaster Revival Shadow is complemented by a Cordura-effect black strap clasped with a titanium ardillon buckle.The story of the Zenith Chronomaster collection is very well imbibed with the El Primero. Time data is driven by the El Primero 4061 caliber, comprising column wheel, which beats at a frequency of 36,000 vibrations an hour and delivers a minimum power reserve of 50 hours once fully wound. The ensemble is encircled by a gray tachymetric scale. These hands point to a pared down hour chapter punctuated by indexes topped with the same luminescent material. This composition, which is perfectly easy to read in spite of its dusky look, is hovered over by traditional baton-style hour and minute hands whose tips are coated with white Super-LumiNova® which emits a light green glow in the dark. Its matte finish enhances the readability of the deep-black dial where the small seconds at 9 o’clock and the two totalizers, all three gray-colored, stand out. The new Chronomaster Revival Shadow espouses the concept but now combines a 37 mm-diameter case crafted in microblasted titanium and boasting the original 1969-style lines with an automatic mechanism. Its particularity? To be endowed with a hand-wound chronograph movement nestling in a blackened steel case, ever-so rare back in the day. This year, however, the manufacture finalizes this forgotten, elusive project.Īfter the A384 and A3818 limited series, Zenith breathes life this time round into a prototype from the 1970s which was never officially produced or commercialized.
OUT OF THE SHADOWS, INTO THE LIGHT This timepiece ’ s blank, imagined some 50 years ago, never ever reached the production stage.
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