Zenith — Chronomaster

el Primero

A 1971 El Primero in a 40 mm stainless steel case, the A788 carries the manual-winding El Primero 420 at 36,000 vph with a 50-hour reserve and is rated to 50 m.

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Zenith el Primero A788
ReferenceA788
BrandZenith
FamilyChronomaster
Produced1971
StatusDiscontinued
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Zenith — 9 min readZenith Chronomaster: El Primero, the Attic, and the 1/10th-Second IdeaA connected history of Zenith Chronomaster, from the 1969 El Primero A384, A385, and A386 to the quartz-crisis survival story, Revival models, Chronomaster Original, and Chronomaster Sport with the modern El Primero 3600.