The brand new Zenith El Primero A384 Revival. This is a very cool watch for a number of reasons, but first, let’s look back a half century.

This year, Zenith is lucky enough to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the El Primero automatic chronograph, which is being marked with the release of the Zenith El Primero A384 Revival. There were only 2600 of these watches made between 19.I/trending 24697 INTRODUCING: Why the Zenith El Primero A384 Revival is one of the best reissues of 2019 Nick Kenyon It has a straight-line lever escapement, a monometallic balance that's adjusted to 5 positions, a self-compensating flat balance spring, and an index regulator. The rare mechanical automatic self-winding Zenith 'El Primero' caliber 3019 PHC / 400 movement is rhodium-plated with fausses cotes embellishment.

The 13mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. It has a date aperture window between 4 and 5 o'clock. There is a small seconds subsidiary dial at 9 o'clock, a 12-hour sub dial at 6 o'clock, and a 30-minute register at 3 o'clock. The hands are silver and there are applied faceted baton hour marker indexes with a creamy patina, an outer minute/second ring, and a center red chronograph hand.

It has the original white Panda tropical dial with black sub dials and an outer tachymeter scale that have patinated to an even tropical brown color. The 37mm diameter sharp three-body solid case, downturned lugs, and flat arched bezel are polished/brushed. It has a snap-on solid case back with a raised Zenith logo that reveals an acrylic exhibition display crystal, and round chronograph pushbuttons. It has a shell cordovan strap with a stainless steel Zenith buckle, and an acrylic glass crystal. More about Vintage El Primero TROPICAL Dial SS / Leather

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