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MAY 1999 |
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All
in good time Surely when playing one of those word linkage games, it were said the
word “Switzerland”, the most frequent answer would be chocolate
and watches. Surely a satisfying result since abroad the most frequent
linkage to our country are spaghetti and Mafia. Indeed Switzerland is
the unquestionable homeland of the watch industry being several the
watches brands beyond Alps. Some of them recently formed, other instead
as Zenith with an ancient tradition. Indeed it was in the far 1865 that
Georges Favre-Jacot, when he was only 22 years old, founded the Zenith
Manufacture of watches. Favre-Jacot was one of the firsts to understand
the importance of the interchangeability of the components to rationalize
production and liability of mechanical watches. Another basic step of
the Swiss industry was in 1969 by introducing El Primero, that is the
first chronograph automatic movement produced all over the world and
the only one able to measure the short times till 1/10 second, thanks
to the employ of balance wheels oscillating at a frequency of 36'000
alternations per hour. Besides the El Primero the Zenith's research
has realized another movement, called Elite, whose elegant geometry,
featured by an ultra straight movement, performs out of common characteristics
of functioning, liability and exactness. Those mechanisms are the core
of the watches lines (the Zenith's watches), among which we report the
Chronomaster El Primero and the Chronomaster Elite where elegance and
care of details are brought to the utmost. Leadership Medica® |
