Founded in Le Locle
in 1865 by a visionary watchmaker, Georges Favre-Jacot, the
Manufacture Zenith earned swift recognition for the precision
of its chronometers with which it has won 2,333 chronometry
prizes in a century and a half of existence – an absolute
record in terms of pocket watches, onboard timers and wristwatches.
Having earned fame thanks to its legendary El Primero calibre
– an integrated automatic column-wheel chronograph movement
launched in 1969 and endowed with a high frequency of 36,000
vibrations per hour that ensures short-time measurements accurate
to the nearest 1/10th of a second – the Manufacture
Zenith has since developed over 600 movement variations. All
Zenith watches are now fitted with an in-house Zenith movement
and are developed and produced from start to finish by the
Manufacture in Le Locle. The latter currently stands at the
exact spot where its founder built the first company workshop
– thus physically embodying a continuity that is a rarity
in itself.
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