Much like our cars, we like our watches to be elegant, unfussy, and clean. Many modern watches go in the opposite direction with cluttered dials, chaotic color palettes, or oversized cases. Zenith's ...

Zenith just dropped a timely (pun intended) reminder that you can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks. The Zenith El Primero A386 was among the original three references of the model released in ...

The Zenith El Primero was launched just over 50 years ago, on January 10th, 1969. At the time, the company was still known as Zenith-Movado, and it had spent seven years developing the El Primero’s ...

The Zenith Defy Skyline is getting the El Primero treatment – the line now has a chronograph model, using the state-of-the-art version of the high frequency movement that made Zenith famous when it ...

“Last year when Jean-Claude Biver decided to relaunch Zenith, he asked me, ‘Do you have any ideas to improve technical projects at Zenith?’ ” says LVMH’s Guy Semon. “I told him, ‘Mr. Biver, El Primero ...

Swiss watchmaker Zenith has drawn on its back catalogue with its latest timepiece, the A3818 revival. The watch is a reincarnation of the El Primero of the 1970s, a watch which was affectionately ...

Welcome to Watches You Should Know, a biweekly column highlighting important or little-known watches with interesting backstories and unexpected influence. This week: the Zenith El Primero. Imagine a ...

When it comes to complications, there is one that watch buyers never grow tired of. Forgetting a date, which qualifies as a complication in that it’s a function beyond telling the time, the most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writer, editor, publisher and fan of all things handwritten. There are a variety of classic watches whose names are often uttered ...