More articles about: Zenith

With the watch industry's big annual horology fest, Watches and Wonders, still three months away, the Swiss watch industry likes to keep its powder dry in the dark days of January. So it's often slim pickings for watch hounds after ...

Sports stars and watch brands have turned out to be a very fruitful pairing. On the one hand, many of those stars-thrust into a rarified world and handed a salary to match-become collectors themselves. On the other, they offer a ...

In The Simpsons' episode 'Treehouse of Horror XXIV' Bart menaces local air traffic by flying his new box kite near Springfield Airport."Kite at 2 o'clock!" warns the co-pilot of a fighter jet."I don't know what that means," ...

Zenith's El Primero movement is the gift that keeps on giving. Introduced in 1969, it was the first automatic chronograph movement. It's something that may seem like less than a big deal these days. Back then, it was a major ...

Esquire creative director Nick Sullivan is on the ground at Watches & Wonders in Geneva-the first big in-person watch event in three years-bringing us the best new releases from brands big and small. To kick things off, he's wrapping ...

While the Defy family of watches from Zenith has produced some mind-bending experimental-and expensive-watches in the past two years, including a Double Tourbillon whose transparent case is made entirely of sapphire crystal, the brand is also mindful of making ...

With the digital Geneva Watches and Wonders show looming (it starts on April 7), the watch market is currently akin to that weird thing that happens just before a tsunami, when all the water gets sucked out to sea, leaving the seabed ...

Along with everything else, the pandemic has pretty effectively disrupted the way the watch world debuts its latest show-stoppers. Big, glitzy, in-person fairs are, by and large, not happening. But that doesn't mean the machinery stops moving entirely.Case ...

The recreation of vintage-inspired watches from an illustrious back catalog of designs has become an accepted, if sometimes overused, industry practice for watch brands-namely those with the right history-to create "newness." Or maybe that should be "oldness." Whatever. While ...

Collabs with automotive brands are a relative no brainer in the watchmaking world. As any neurosurgeon will tell you (probably), the same bit of the brain that makes men go all goo-goo eyed at a car is but a synapse away ...

Among watch enthusiasts, the Zenith El Primero is famous for being the unsung hero that inspired the machinations behind more household names. Without the El Primero, there'd be no Panerai Luminor Chrono, no Bulgari Chronograph, and, most notably, no self-winding ...