Far more than just a vintage-inspired creation, the Chronomaster Revival A385 is an actual reproduction of the original model from 1969 in an exercise of “reverse engineering” by the Manufacture. This daring feat was a testament to the confidence those who had tirelessly worked on the El Primero calibre held, as well as tangible proof that a mechanical movement was superior to the nascent quartz movements of the time, which couldn’t have stood the temperature differences endured by the watch during the flight.Īfter over 50 years, the time has come for the A385 to make its return in the form of a Chronomaster Revival model. Upon landing, the watch was still functioning perfectly. This extreme test consisted of strapping the watch to an Air France Boeing 707’s landing gear on a flight from Paris to New York to test its resistance to external aggressions such as drastic temperature fluctuations, wind force and changing air pressure.
In fact, the A385 made headlines back in 1970, when it took part in Zenith’s “Operation Sky”.
Canon IncĪmong them was the A385, a tonneau-shaped steel chronograph with an eye-catching brown gradient dial, which was the first “smoked” dial ever to be made in the watch industry and for Zenith. It made its debut in three distinct stainless steel models. It was the year that the Zenith El Primero, the world’s first automatic high-frequency chronograph, was unveiled to the world. The Zenith Chronomaster Revival A385 is priced at a retail of SGD 11,600 inclusive of GST / USD 7,900 in strap, and SGD 12,400 inclusive of GST / USD 8,400 in the “Ladder” bracelet.ġ969 was certainly a year to remember for Zenith and would go down in the annals of watchmaking history as the year that forever changed the chronograph. We have requested for a photography session with this watch when it arrives on Singapore shores – we were told next week, and will update you with a hands-on review when we do. A legend is born again: Zenith is bringing back one of the earliest and most emblematic El Primero equipped chronographs from the earliest days of the revolutionary calibre in the form of a Chronomaster revival model.
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