Zenith watches

Zenith was founded in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle, in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. The brand belongs to the LVMH group. Its Calibre 135-O, a competition version of the Calibre 135, won five Neuchâtel Observatory chronometry prizes between 1950 and 1954.

In 1969 Zenith presented the El Primero, an automatic chronograph movement running at 36,000 vibrations per hour. When the company later stopped making mechanical chronographs, Charles Vermot hid the tools and plans needed to make it in the attic of the Ponts-de-Martel facility, which allowed production to resume.

Current collections include the Defy, whose design draws on the 1969 Defy, the Chronomaster, the Pilot, presented in its current form in 2023, and the G.F.J. and Elite lines.