(Image credit: Zenith website)
Intro
The Zenith El Primero is both a movement and a watch. This page refers to the calibre 400 movement. The El Primero is a hi-beat automatic chronograph, famously used in the Rolex Daytona until 2000.
Specs
- Debut 1969, as the calibre 3019.
- Size 30mm by 6.5mm, 13.2 ligne
- 280 components
- 31 jewels
- Automatic, bidirectional winding, column wheel chronograph.
- Rate: 36000 vph (hi-beat)
- Power reserve: 52 hours
- Hacking
- Handwinding
- Hour, minute, central seconds, quickset date, 12 hour chronograph, 3 registers.
- Unknown accuracy. Usually chronometer rated.
- decoration and adjustments vary.
Links
- Excellent TimeZone review
- Another TZ review (different watch, 410 variant with moonphase)
- Wikipedia page
