Zenith was founded in 1865 in Le Locle, Switzerland by Georges Favre-Jacot, who built a unified manufacture — workshop, production, and finishing under one roof — at a time when Swiss watchmaking was still largely a cottage industry. The company renamed itself Fabrique des Montres Zenith S.A. in 1911 and accumulated over 2,000 observatory chronometer prizes during the twentieth century, reflecting a consistent commitment to movement precision.

Zenith’s defining achievement is the El Primero (1969), the world’s first series-produced automatic high-frequency (36,000 vph) chronograph movement. Saved from destruction during the quartz crisis by watchmaker Charles Vermot — who hid the tooling and blueprints in the factory attic in defiance of management orders — El Primero was revived in 1984 and supplied movements to Rolex for its Daytona chronograph through 1988. Zenith has been owned by LVMH since 1999 and remains a manufacture-quality brand with a particularly strong following among vintage chronograph collectors.

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Manufacturer Movement
Zenith Manual 9.59 mm
Zenith Quartz 25.94 mm
Zenith Manual 23.7 mm
Zenith Manual 23.69 mm
Zenith Manual 23.69 mm
Zenith Manual 23.65 mm
Zenith Manual 23.65 mm
Zenith Manual 23.65 mm
Zenith Manual 23.69 mm
Zenith Manual 23.69 mm
Zenith Manual 11.5 mm x 16.35 mm
Zenith Manual 11.5 mm x 16.35 mm
Zenith Manual 11.28 mm x 13.53 mm
Zenith Manual 27.07 mm
Zenith Manual 27.07 mm
Zenith Manual 27.07 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Manual 27.07 mm
Zenith Manual 27.25 mm
Zenith Automatic 30 mm