To bring this prototype to life, it was only appropriate that Zenith produces it as a Revival piece. We may never know if the dial with three shades of blue was intended as an alternative to the A386’s dial or intended for a different model, but its striking beauty and intriguing history compelled the watchmakers at Zenith to finally put it into production. No records exist of these presumably prototype blue tri-color dials, but considering that they were kept with prototype dials of the A386 in the same configuration it was commercialized in 1969, one can assume that is was part of the original prototype dials for the A386, and that Charles Vermot himself hid them in the attic along with all the other El Primero tools. In it, remarkably preserved after decades, were a number of dials: The signature El Primero tri-color dial of the A386 that became a design icon, and more remarkably, another version of the tri-color dials, using three different shades of blue.
While inspecting the attic of the main historical Zenith Manufacture building last year during the El Primero’s 50th anniversary, a small, unassuming and unlabeled box was uncovered. The Chronomaster Revival Manufacture Edition is exclusively available on Zenith’s newly launched e-commerce platform, as well as to visitors of the Zenith Manufacture in Le Locle. While the anniversary is over, Zenith continues to celebrate the legacy of this historically important watch movement with a number of new and exclusive watches.įor its first Manufacture Edition, Zenith has reproduced a previously unknown prototype dial of its most iconic chronograph. In 2019, the Zenith El Primero, the world’s first automatic high-frequency chronograph movement, marked its 50th anniversary.
Zenith presents the special Chronomaster Revival Manufacture Edition inspired by a never-before-seen prototype dial discovered from the manufacture’s attic.
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