ZENITH – EL PRIMERO Chronomaster 2 Special Edition

ZENITH – 50th EL PRIMERO Chronomaster 2 Skeleton Тitanium Special Edition 2019

CHRONOMASTER 2
New-GEN El Primero

El Primero is celebrating its 50th anniversary. An opportunity to unveil this cult movement in its modernised version, fitted in the emblematic Chronomaster. The new El Primero lineage is inaugurated with series of 250 titanium models featuring an original ceramic bezel and skeleton dial.

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Reinterpreted to ensure greater modularity, the El Primero 3600 calibre has been designed using the latest technologies, while preserving the DNA of the original movement. Also beating at the high frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour, it measures and displays tenths of a second. Alongside the original El Primero, it will gradually be introduced on other models in the range and equipped with various functions.

Faithful optimisation

At Zenith, celebrating the mythical El Primero – a high-frequency star born in 1969 – is about showing respect for the past, taking root in the present and looking resolutely towards future horizons. In this spirit, the Manufacture's engineers have redesigned the world’s most accurate automatic chronograph movement, offering a modernised version that is faithful to the architecture and proven performance of the original.

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The strict specifications stipulated modularity, optimised industrial production, assembly and adjustment, the addition of a stop-seconds device and autonomy increased to a full 60 hours. As an added bonus, it was to provide the option of integrating several functions and displays as well as ensuring enhanced user friendliness – all the while complying with the absolute necessity of preserving the integrity and identity of the original El Primero.

Modern heritage

Renamed El Primero 3600, this optimised calibre is thus endowed with the main attributes of its predecessor: a 1/10th of a second chronograph function, along with integrated construction incorporating a lateral clutch, column wheel and ballbearing-mounted central rotor. The difference lies in the fact that it has been developed using the latest technologies and performance algorithms.

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The most obvious modifications are as follows: a tenth-of-a-second display on a scale with 100 graduations; the addition of a balance-stop device; a reversal of the crown sequence; adjustment of the wheels and gears; enlarged and centred design of the column wheel; and most visibly of all, an optimised lateral clutch that now includes two intermediate wheels.

Living legend

To inaugurate the new-gen El Primero, Zenith has chosen an emblematic contemporary collection: the Chronomaster. Its imposing stature and distinctive design are in line with the DNA of the Maison. Equipped with the El Primero 3600 movement, the Chronomaster 2 also flaunts a modernised look with a light titanium case, black or blue ceramic graduated bezel, skeleton dial with solid counters and star-shaped oscillating weight.
Graced with three distinctive colours - light grey, blue and anthracite - the display is distinguished by a direct tenth-of-a-second read-off. The red chronograph hand makes a full sweep of the dial in ten seconds, indicating with each jump successive tenths of a second on the 100 graduations of the flange and bezel.

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In addition to measuring and displaying tenths of a second, this Chronomaster, operating at 36,000 vibrations per hour, features hour and minute functions in the centre, 60-minute and 60-second chronograph counters, running small seconds and date, while delivering a minimum 60-hour power reserve – meaning a whole weekend without having to wind the watch even if is not worn!

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Available in two limited series of 250 pieces each, fitted with a blue or black ceramic bezel, the Chronomaster 2 is a powerful distillation of Zenith's modern and sporty identity.

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TECHNICAL DETAILS

Collection: 50th Ll Primero Anniversary
 
Model:  EL PRIMERO  Chronomaster 2 Special Limited Edition

Reference 95.3001.3600/69.C817 - Back ceramic bezel

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Reference 95.3002.3600/69.C818 - Blue ceramic bezel

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KEY POINTS
Entirely redesigned movement to pay tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the legendary El Primero movement
Automatic El Primero column-wheel chronograph able to measure and display the 1/10th of a second
1/10th of a second indication on the ceramic bezel
Increased power reserve of min 60 hours
Stop second mechanism
Certified Chronometer
MOVEMENT
El Primero 3600, Automatic
Calibre: 13¼``` (Diameter: 30 mm)
Thickness: 6.6mm
Frequency: 36,000 VpH (5 Hz)
Power-reserve: min. 60 hours
Finishes: New star-shaped oscillating weight with satined finishings
FUNCTIONS
Hours and minutes in the centre
Small seconds at 9 o'clock
1/10th of a second Chronograph:

• Central chronograph hand that makes one turn in 10 seconds
• 60-minute counter at 6 o'clock
• 60-second counter at 3 o'clock

Date indication at 6 o'clock

CASE
Material: Titanium

• Back ceramic bezel
• Blue ceramic bezel

Diameter: 42 mm
Diameter opening: 37.1 mm
Thickness: 12.75 mm
Crystal: Domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides
Case-back: Transparent sapphire crystal
Water-resistance: 10 ATM
DIAL & HANDS
Dial: Openworked with three different-coloured counters
Hour-markers: Rhodium-plated, faceted and coated with Super-LumiNova®SLN C1
Hands: Rhodium-plated, faceted and coated with Super-LumiNova®SLN C1
STRAP
Bracelet: Alligator strap with protective rubber lining & grey stitching
Buckle: Steel double folding clasp


Limited Edition
Available only 250-Piece
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Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA Chronor Slate Edition

Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA Chronor Rose Golg Slate Limited Edition 2019

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Parmigiani Fleurier is proud to present the Tonda Chronor Slate. This chronograph, created by the watchmaking centre's manufactures in 18 ct rose gold or white gold, is limited to 25 pieces of each.

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To a certain extent, Parmigiani Fleurier's expertise in the measurement of time is rooted in the restoration of two pair-cased pocket watches created by James Cox, pieces dating from the 18th century which are held by the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation collection. Each of these twin timepieces has a jumping seconds mechanism, formed of a hand which makes one revolution per second.

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Parmigiani Fleurier's history began when Michel Parmigiani opened a restoration workshop in 1976. This marked the start of his in-depth study of the mechanical masterpieces of the past. It led to the creation of the Parmigiani Fleurier brand, and the company has continued to house a restoration workshop capable of working on any horological piece. This has been a source of inspiration for everything the brand has created.

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In 2017, the Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Chronor Anniversaire won the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève in the "Chronograph" category. This exceptional timepiece boasts many accomplishments, from its 5 Hertz movement to its two column wheels (one of which drives the split-seconds function), its vertical clutch, a balance held in place by a cross-through bridge, and the movement material: 18 ct rose gold.

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In 2019, Parmigiani Fleurier is delighted to unveil the Tonda Chronor Slate, a watch with a dial in rich slate grey. This timepiece is uniquely symbolic of the expertise of the Watchmaking Centre. All of its components, excluding the strap and sapphire crystal, have been produced by the different manufactures (Atokalpa, Elwin, Les Artisans Boîtiers, Quadrance & Habillage, and Vaucher Manufacture Fleurier). As is the norm at Parmigiani Fleurier, this watch is 100% Swiss Made.

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With a main plate and bridges made from gold, the heart which drives this masculine jewel of Haute Horlogerie is an exclusive hand-wound calibre PF361 which beats at 36,000 oscillations per hour. It comprises two column wheels. The Tonda Chronor Slate is actually an integrated chronograph with split-seconds. What is more, this function is actuated via a vertical clutch. To guarantee legibility, the counters are placed off-centre.

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The dial of this timepiece also features many fine attributes, such as the pulsometer and tachymeter scales, the seconds and split-seconds hands (which are different colours for improved legibility) and the counters which are set slightly above the axis of the crown.

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The conception and development of this watch required great skill and expertise, both in terms of its functions, all carefully designed to ensure a coherent whole – a rare feat – and also in terms of the aesthetic which runs through the interior and exterior.

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The accuracy to 1/10th of a second and the challenge posed by shaping the extremely malleable gold are accomplishments that lovers of fine watchmaking are sure to fully appreciate.

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Equally impressive is the design, which ensures that the movement is extremely durable and resistant to impacts, and the fine decoration on the drive components. A knurled bezel encloses the arc of the hands around the dial, and an alligator Hermès strap completes this precious timepiece.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Collection: TONDA

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REFERENCE PFH282-1000200-HA1241

CASE
Polished 18-ct rose gold
Dimensions: Ø 42.10 mm, thickness: 14.16 mm, crown: Ø 7.2 mm
Glasses: anti-reflective sapphire, back: sapphire
Back engraving: individual number, « EDITION LIMITEE XX/25»
W.R. 10 meters
DIAL
Colour: Slate
Material: Gold
Finishing: Opaline
Index: 18-ct solid rose gold plated indexes
HANDS Skeleton delta-shaped
CALIBER
PF361, MANUAL WINDING MOVEMENT,
18 CT SOLID ROSE GOLD MOVEMENT
Functions
Hours, minutes,  small second, big date, chronograph and split second
Power reserve 65 hours
Frequency 26’000 Vph (5 Hz)
Jewels 35
Nb of components 328
Total dimensions Ø 36.60 mm, thickness: 8.50 mm
Decoration Openworked, drawn hand-chamfered bridge
SRAP 
Hermès Havana alligator strap with 18-ct rose gold pin buckle

RETAIL PRICE 135’000 CHF

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