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Lot Essay
This endangered species strap is shown for display purposes only and is not for sale. The watch will be supplied with a calf leather strap.
To commemorate the firms' 150th anniversary in 2015, Zenith launched the “Academy Georges Favre-Jacot”, named after its founder. It embodies technics from the past and present as well as elements from Zenith’s maritime timepieces.
The present watch is no. 108 of the limited edition of only 150 examples in pink gold, preserved in like new condition and sold with the full set of accessories.
The Academy Georges Favre Jacot is equipped with the hand-wound high-frequency El Primero 4810 calibre with COSC certification, the chain-and-fusée transmission visible through an aperture to the upper half of the dial. The chain provides a constant force to the timepiece. It consists of 575 components with a total length of 18 cm. Once fully wound, it can withstand traction equivalent to three kilos.
Zenith was founded in 1865 in Le Locle by the young Swiss watchmaker Georges Favre-Jacot. In the years to come, the company manufactured high quality deck watches and pocket chronometers and won a Gold Medal at the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva in 1896. One year later, in 1897, Georges Favre registered a new trademark, the curved name "Zenith" over a landscape and starry sky.
Today, the firm is best known for the "El Primero”, its most successful automatic chronograph movement. Launched in 1969, El Primero (for the first in Spanish) is still regarded as one of the best and most accurate chronograph movements ever created and still in production to date.
To commemorate the firms' 150th anniversary in 2015, Zenith launched the “Academy Georges Favre-Jacot”, named after its founder. It embodies technics from the past and present as well as elements from Zenith’s maritime timepieces.
The present watch is no. 108 of the limited edition of only 150 examples in pink gold, preserved in like new condition and sold with the full set of accessories.
The Academy Georges Favre Jacot is equipped with the hand-wound high-frequency El Primero 4810 calibre with COSC certification, the chain-and-fusée transmission visible through an aperture to the upper half of the dial. The chain provides a constant force to the timepiece. It consists of 575 components with a total length of 18 cm. Once fully wound, it can withstand traction equivalent to three kilos.
Zenith was founded in 1865 in Le Locle by the young Swiss watchmaker Georges Favre-Jacot. In the years to come, the company manufactured high quality deck watches and pocket chronometers and won a Gold Medal at the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva in 1896. One year later, in 1897, Georges Favre registered a new trademark, the curved name "Zenith" over a landscape and starry sky.
Today, the firm is best known for the "El Primero”, its most successful automatic chronograph movement. Launched in 1969, El Primero (for the first in Spanish) is still regarded as one of the best and most accurate chronograph movements ever created and still in production to date.