America?s largest luxury watch event, WatchTime New York, is returning for its sixth year at Midtown Manhattan?s Gotham Hall on October 22-24. This year?s event is shaping up be a fantastic return, with more than 25 participating watch brands displaying their latest and greatest timepieces. Among these brands is Zenith, which is showcasing its most significant launch of the year, the widely praised Chronomaster Sport, a novel and modern take on the original El Primero design.

Zenith, as most of you reading this are probably aware by now, introduced the El Primero chronograph caliber in 1969. It was notable for, among other aspects, its uncommonly high frequency of 36,600 vph (5 Hz), which in practical terms meant that its chronograph could record elapsed times not just to the second but to the 1/10th second. In most watches that housed the movement, however, the dial was not designed to actually record these minuscule measurements in an easily legible way. For the Chronomaster Sport, unveiled earlier this year ahead of LVMH Watch Week, Zenith remedied this, adding an ultra-readable ceramic bezel with an etched, graduated 1/10th-second display.
The Chronomaster Sport marks, according to Zenith, ?a new era for the quintessential Zenith sporty-chic chronograph,? the El Primero-equipped Chronomaster, whose other recent variations have included more retro-influenced models like the Chronomaster A385 Revival. The new model bears some of thes...