Recently introduced at this year’s Watches & Wonders in Geneva, the addition of a “Caliber 3600” variant, along with 39.5mm and 13.1mm casing, set the new watch apart from its predecessors. Each dial is “open” and comprised of 16 parts, including Zenith’s signature star logo, balance wheel, seconds wheel, escape wheel, and more. The Chronomaster Open model belongs to ZENITH'S “Iconic” family.Three style versions of the “CO” will be offered, and include a stainless steel option with a silver dial, stainless steel with a black dial, and a rose gold option with a silver dial. The curve of the hands that decorate the dial is executed with precise handwork. The central hand of the chronograph, the hand for the 30-minute counter and for the power reserve have a blued fi nish.
The markers and the three hands for the hours, minutes and small seconds are facetted, rhodium-plated, and hand-set. The Open model exists in four different versions: a silver or black sun-burst dial in a steel case or silver sun-burst dial in an 18-carat rose gold case or in a rose gold and steel case. Using the design codes of the past to interpret contemporary models, the Chronomaster Open is based on a century and a half of watchmaking expertise. ZENITH communicates the image of a highly technical brand that is intended for connoisseurs of high-precision watchmaking. This aspect is important in the choice of a watch, one of the only pieces of jewelry worn by men, an accessory that identifies and highlights his personality. The Chronomaster Open displays an avant-garde design with highly finished features. One can only admire the attention to detail. The great watchmaking traditionĮverything here evokes the great tradition of watchmaking: a column-wheel chronograph mechanism a power reserve indicator a rhodium-plated plate, circular- graining and chamfered bridges strokes drawn on the hammers, levers and conveyors oscillating weight with “Côtes de Genève” guilloché work revelation of the ZENITH star through skeleton work and tachometric scale on the flanges that harks back to the chronographs used in the first automobile races. Over and above the aesthetic success of this open-heart operation – the Open concept is the realization of technical prowess: to make the regulating organ visible, it has been moved to 10 o'clock, on the edge of the movement. Whereas other timepieces make 8 vibrations per second, the El Primero caliber makes 10 in the same time.
Its secret lies in its number of vibrations, which is 25% higher than in other movements on the market. The open dial – a ZENITH creation – lets one see into the perfectly synchronized pulsations and the magic of the mechanism in what is today unanimously considered as the “best serial movement in the world” for its performance and its chronometric reliability. The Chronomaster Open model leaves no-one indifferent.
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