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THM’s Collector’s Corner With Gregory Selch: 5 Vintage Watches That Are Conversation-Starters

THM’s Collector’s Corner With Gregory Selch: 5 Vintage Watches That Are Conversation-Starters

The Colorful Evolution of The ZENITH DEFY 21: Chroma II Unveiled!

The Colorful Evolution of The ZENITH DEFY 21: Chroma II Unveiled!

THM’s Collector’s Corner With Gregory Selch: Spilling The Beans On Vintage Watches That Didn’t See A Peak

THM’s Collector’s Corner With Gregory Selch: Spilling The Beans On Vintage Watches That Didn’t See A Peak

THM’s Collector’s Corner With Gregory Selch: Top 5 Vintage Timepieces With A Story

THM’s Collector’s Corner With Gregory Selch: Top 5 Vintage Timepieces With A Story

Watches And Wonders 2023 Wrap-Up: The Battle Of Sizes And Hidden Gems

Watches And Wonders 2023 Wrap-Up: The Battle Of Sizes And Hidden Gems

THM Suggests: Top 5 Chronographs Breaking Ground This Year

THM Suggests: Top 5 Chronographs Breaking Ground This Year

Zenith Unveils A New Case Design In Steel & Ceramic For The Pilot Automatic

Zenith Unveils A New Case Design In Steel & Ceramic For The Pilot Automatic

Zenith’s Pilot Big Date Flyback Unveiled With A New El Primero Caliber

Zenith’s Pilot Big Date Flyback Unveiled With A New El Primero Caliber

6 Of The Best Panda Dials Right Now | A Trend That Never Stopped Trending

6 Of The Best Panda Dials Right Now | A Trend That Never Stopped Trending

THM Suggests: Top 5 Re-Issue Watches That Will Transport You To The Vintage Era

THM Suggests: Top 5 Re-Issue Watches That Will Transport You To The Vintage Era

LVMH Watch Week 2023: Zenith Unveils The Most Elaborate Skeleton Watch To Date

LVMH Watch Week 2023: Zenith Unveils The Most Elaborate Skeleton Watch To Date

Zenith Defy Extreme E Copper X Prix: A Third Limited-Edition Timepiece Unveiled

Zenith Defy Extreme E Copper X Prix: A Third Limited-Edition Timepiece Unveiled

Watches And Wonders 2022: ZENITH- Master Of Chronographs Exhibition Unveiled With New Chronomasters

Watches And Wonders 2022: ZENITH- Master Of Chronographs Exhibition Unveiled With New Chronomasters

Zenith’s DEFY Midnight Series: Ultra Modern And Proudly Feminine

Zenith’s DEFY Midnight Series: Ultra Modern And Proudly Feminine

Zenith E-Experience: The DEFY Extreme E “Desert X Prix”

Zenith E-Experience: The DEFY Extreme E “Desert X Prix”

A Glimpse of the History of India and the Watch World

A Glimpse of the History of India and the Watch World

LVMH Watch Week 2022 : Follow Your Light With The Zenith Defy Skyline

LVMH Watch Week 2022 : Follow Your Light With The Zenith Defy Skyline

LVMH Watch Week 2022 : Zenith DEFY 21 CHROMA: A Bright Chromatic Expression

LVMH Watch Week 2022 : Zenith DEFY 21 CHROMA: A Bright Chromatic Expression

Collecting Vintage Watches : An Accidental Passion

Collecting Vintage Watches : An Accidental Passion

Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2021 : The Verdict Is Out

Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2021 : The Verdict Is Out

Seven Highlights from the Only Watch 2021 Auction

Seven Highlights from the Only Watch 2021 Auction

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In spite of the many obstacles standing in the way, ZENITH exists to encourage people to follow their passions and make their dreams a reality. From Louis Blériot’s historic flight across the English Channel to Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting stratospheric free-fall jump, ZENITH watches have accompanied extraordinary figures who have dreamed big and striven to achieve the impossible since the company was founded in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacout.

Favre-Jacot, Zenith’s founder, won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition for his innovative pocket chronograph, which made its debut that same year. El Primero, introduced by Zenith in 1969, was the first automatic chronograph with an integrated movement. El Primero is still the only caliber that can measure short times down to the tenth of a second and is the world’s most precise series-made caliber.

The LVMH group acquired Zenith in the year 2000. El Primero, the company’s most famous in-house movement, is still in production, making Zenith one of the few Swiss watchmakers to do so. Zenith has been making timepieces for a very long time, and in that time it has created 600 different types of movements and filed 300 patents for its engineering marvels. As a result, the watchmaker has won 2,333 awards for timekeeping precision since 1903.