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It was a true victory for not only the watchmakers who had developed and assembled the mechanical marvel, but mechanical watchmaking as a whole. Upon landing, the watch was still functioning perfectly.” According to Zenith, “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 El Primero faced a daring test and challenge back in 1970 during Zenith’s “Operation Sky”. The movement has really been put to the test over the years, and has held up incredibly well.

This meant modern collectors could enjoy watches powered by the first high-beat automatic chronograph movement – a movement so respected even Rolex used a modified version of it in its Daytona watches for some time. What could have been lost to the quartz crisis was rescued and the El Primero triumphantly returned thanks to Vermot’s preservation (against orders) of the equipment needed to produce it once again. The Zenith El Primero movement is a horological legend in the watch world – it’s schematics, stamps, and fabrication machinery saved by Charles Vermot and his great defiance and foresight. Today the Zenith Chronomaster Revival A385 brings back the smoked brown gradient dial variant of the initial trio. Game-changers in their day, Zenith produced three watches that were not only powered by a then rare high-beat movement, but they also had gradient dials – which Zenith claims was the first smoked dials for the industry at large. Zenith has unveiled a new tribute to one of their chronographs from 1969: the Zenith Chronomaster Revival A385 Gradient Dial. This morning a new generation of Omega Speedmaster Professionals were announced, but that was not the only legendary chronograph revival and rejuvenation introduced today. I/trending 18340 HANDS-ON: The Zenith Chronomaster Revival A385 is the return of a sepia-toned legend Zach Blass

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