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Pre-Owned
Zenith Watches

Founded in 1865 by 22-year-old Georges Favre-Jacot, Zenith makes watches at the very pinnacle of quality and precision. As well as being the creator of the first integrated automatic chronograph movement, the El Primero, Zenith led the way in bringing together all watchmaking professions under the convenience of one roof.
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A mechanical watch is powered by a spring. Manual mechanical watches must be hand wound. Automatic watches are also mechanical, and are wound by a weight that spins with the wearer's movements. A quartz watch is battery powered and extremely accurate.
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Zenith Defy 97.9300.3620/79.I001 447217
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Defy
97.9300.3620/79.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€12,285
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3100.3600/21.M3100 449657
New Price

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3100.3600/21.M3100

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€7,310
Zenith Pilot 11.1940.679/91.C807 445885

Zenith
Pilot
11.1940.679/91.C807

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€4,380
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.4010/21.R511 434178

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.4010/21.R511

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€4,855
Zenith Defy 03.9302.3620/75.I001 446165

Zenith
Defy
03.9302.3620/75.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2024
€10,420
Zenith Elite 16.3200.692/03.C833 443752

Zenith
Elite
16.3200.692/03.C833

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€5,950
Zenith Pilot 03.2434.679/20.I010 397414

Zenith
Pilot
03.2434.679/20.I010

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€3,510
Zenith Pilot 03.2434.679/20.I010 381473

Zenith
Pilot
03.2434.679/20.I010

Box
Papers
Year 2023
€3,380
Zenith Defy 03.9300.3620/51.I001 440853

Zenith
Defy
03.9300.3620/51.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€6,000
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3108.3600/57.M3100 439552

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3108.3600/57.M3100

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€7,605
Zenith Elite 18.2290.679/01.C498 405380

Zenith
Elite
18.2290.679/01.C498

Box
Papers
Year 2023
€6,525
Zenith El Primero 30.0243.410 421277
Vintage

Zenith
El Primero
30.0243.410

Box
Papers
Year 2001
€8,130
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3200.3600/21.M3200 436012

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3200.3600/21.M3200

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€6,845
Zenith Defy Xtreme 95.9100.9004/01.I001 435710

Zenith
Defy Xtreme
95.9100.9004/01.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€10,470
Zenith Defy 03.9300.3620/51.I001 434726

Zenith
Defy
03.9300.3620/51.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€6,000
Zenith Port Royal Rectangle 03.0550.400/21.C492 431605

Zenith
Port Royal Rectangle
03.0550.400/21.C492

Box
Papers
Year 2003
€3,800
Zenith Defy 10.9000.9004/96.R782 381912

Zenith
Defy
10.9000.9004/96.R782

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€11,095
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.679/21.C801 407059

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.679/21.C801

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€4,095
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.679/21.C801 381906

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.679/21.C801

Box
Papers
Year 2024
€4,095
Zenith Pilot 29.2430.4069/21.C800 381453

Zenith
Pilot
29.2430.4069/21.C800

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€4,095
Zenith Chronomaster 03.0240.4021/01.C495 407263

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.0240.4021/01.C495

Box
Papers
Year 2002
€4,090
Zenith Elite 03.2272.4069/51.C700 424378

Zenith
Elite
03.2272.4069/51.C700

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€4,970
Zenith Elite 16.2310.692/92.C750 418802

Zenith
Elite
16.2310.692/92.C750

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€3,625
Zenith Elite 03.2272.4069/51.C700 399465

Zenith
Elite
03.2272.4069/51.C700

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€4,970
Zenith Pilot 87.2430.4035/21.C721 381491

Zenith
Pilot
87.2430.4035/21.C721

Box
Papers
Year 2014
€24,510
Zenith El Primero 18.2170.4650/75.C713 417853

Zenith
El Primero
18.2170.4650/75.C713

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€8,775
Zenith Defy 49.9000.9004/78.M9000 410806

Zenith
Defy
49.9000.9004/78.M9000

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€10,415
Zenith Chronomaster 97/P384.400/22.C857 381931

Zenith
Chronomaster
97/P384.400/22.C857

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€7,010
Zenith Elite 03.2290.679/01.C493 406713

Zenith
Elite
03.2290.679/01.C493

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€4,095
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.4037/01.C492 378903

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.4037/01.C492

Box
Papers
Year 2015
€6,140
Zenith El Primero Stratos 51.2061.405/75.R516 402914

Zenith
El Primero Stratos
51.2061.405/75.R516

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€6,505
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.4069/21.C773 397430

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.4069/21.C773

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€4,090
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero 03.2081.400/78.M2040 398082

Zenith
Chronomaster El Primero
03.2081.400/78.M2040

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€7,895
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.4010/21.R511 381455

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.4010/21.R511

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€4,385
Zenith Defy 95.9200.9004/77.I001 381932

Zenith
Defy
95.9200.9004/77.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€19,410
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.679/21.C801 334096
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.679/21.C801

Box
Papers
Year 2024
Product Location
€4,680
incl. import taxes & duties
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero 03.2520.400/69.C713 447113

Zenith
Chronomaster El Primero
03.2520.400/69.C713

Box
Papers
Year 2016
Product Location
€5,105
incl. import taxes & duties
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.683/01.C492 423264
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.683/01.C492

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
€4,095
incl. import taxes & duties
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3100.3600/69.M3100 415621

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3100.3600/69.M3100

Box
Papers
Year 2024
Product Location
€9,000
incl. import taxes & duties
Zenith Chronomaster 24.2160.4063/28.R515 207083

Zenith
Chronomaster
24.2160.4063/28.R515

Box
Papers
Year 2012
Product Location
€7,605
incl. import taxes & duties
Zenith Defy 03.9300.3620/51.I001 435646

Zenith
Defy
03.9300.3620/51.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
Product Location
€6,525
incl. import taxes & duties
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3200.3600/21.C903 445154
Manufacturer's Warranty

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3200.3600/21.C903

Box
Papers
Year 2025
Product Location
€8,350
incl. import taxes & duties

Zenith History


Although it is now one of the most prestigious and internationally acclaimed watch brands in the world, Zenith was not officially given its current name until 1911, 46 years after its founding. The company had originally been set up in 1865, in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Le Locle, where it still makes watches today. It was founded by watchmaker Georges Favre-Jacot at the extraordinary age of just 22. Despite his masterful horological skills (focused on precision pocket watches until the 20th century), Georges’ most important contribution to watch history was the establishment of the Zenith manufacture, which was an entirely new concept. Previously, artisan watchmakers worked independently from their homes, but Georges brought them together in a single workshop for the first time, hugely facilitating the company’s ability to increase efficiency and quality control. Georges won numerous awards for his creations during his lifetime, including the gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, and he retired in 1911 after endowing the company to his descendants, along with the name Zenith. The story goes that after creating a particularly magnificent movement, Georges was struck by the poetic similarity between a well-functioning watch and the motion of the heavenly bodies: zenith worked as both an astronomical term and as an homage to the giddy heights of perfection to which watchmakers could aspire. By 1925, the company employed 1,000 workers and was making a range of highly sought after timepieces, clocks and instruments, as well as watches. In 1948, it unveiled the Calibre 135, a universally praised chronometer with a small seconds function. But perhaps the most distinguished moment in the history of the brand came in early 1969, when it was one of three competing brands in the race to complete the first ever automatic chronograph movement. All three finished almost simultaneously, but despite ongoing debate about the true first, the manufacture dubbed its creation El Primero, and continues to maintain that it was the winner. (Interesting fact: El Primero is not in fact Spanish, as many people assume, but rather means first in Esperanto.) Regardless of its relative position, El Primero was undeniably a brilliant invention, oscillating at an extraordinary 36,000 vibrations per hour (the others were only 28,000), and able to measure time to the nearest tenth of a second. Although the creation of El Primero also coincided with the start of the quartz crisis, during which Zenith was forced to shut down all operations on mechanical movements, it also proved to be the brand’s saviour in the aftermath, when it was able to sell the extremely desirable movement to other brands in the 1980s and beyond. Amazingly, the vital plans, parts and tools to make El Primero had to be hidden by an employee at the height of the crisis to save them from destruction—imagine the company’s gratitude when he returned them after the danger had passed! Once back on its feet, the manufacture quickly re-found its dominant position in the luxury watch industry, and the brand joined the LVMH group in 2000. Zenith watches have been worn in the most diverse circumstances, from extreme conditions (Roald Amundsen wore one when he became the first man to reach the South Pole, as did Felix Baumgartner on his 2012 record- and sound-breaking skydive) to austere ones (Mahatma Gandhi kept his for his whole life, even after giving up most other worldly possessions). With its 150th anniversary in 2015, the innovation and technical prowess that has characterised the company’s history shows no sign of slowing.
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