Doubly Defiant: Zenith Defy El Primero Double Tourbillon
Zenith’s year-long 50th-anniversary celebration of its groundbreaking high-frequency chronograph caliber, the El Primero, continues at the inaugural WatchTime Los Angeles event, to be held May 3 – 4 at Downtown L.A.’s Hudson Loft. Among Zenith’s featured timepieces from its 2019 collection will be the new Defy El Primero Double Tourbillon, whose avant-garde design features two separate escapements and a stopwatch function that can measure elapsed times to 1/100th second.
Zenith Defy El Primero Double Tourbillon
The watch, which we got an early look at in Geneva and at Baselworld during the major Swiss watch fairs earlier this year, is the most complicated of Zenith’s El Primero tribute pieces, which include the vintage-look A386 Revival piece and the next-generation Defy Inventor. Housed inside a 46-mm case, in either satin-brushed 950 platinum or all-black carbon, the new El Primero Caliber 9020 is equipped with two tourbillons ? one at 10 o’clock that is coupled with the chronograph function, the other at 8 o’clock to regulate the timekeeping rate of the watch. The escapement in the 10 o’clock tourbillon beats at a lightning-quick frequency of 50 Hz (360,000 vph), its carriage performing a full rotation every five seconds. What this means in practice is that when the chronograph is activated, its central hand makes a complete sweep of the dial once per second, and thus has the ability, when stopped, to measure an interval to...
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