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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. Read More
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  1. Chronomaster Chronomaster
  2. Chronomaster El Primero Chronomaster El Primero
  3. Defy Defy
  4. Defy Xtreme Defy Xtreme
  5. El Primero El Primero
  6. El Primero Stratos El Primero Stratos
  7. Elite Elite
  8. Grande Class Grande Class
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The size of a watch is very important for style and comfort. If you prefer an oversized watch like a Panerai Luminor, you’ll probably want Large. If you’re looking for something more discreet like a Rolex Lady Datejust, you’ll want Small. For everything in between, Medium.
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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 Pilot 87.2430.4035/21.C721

Zenith
Pilot
87.2430.4035/21.C721

Box
Papers
Year 2014
€24,090
Zenith Pilot 29.2430.679/21.C753
New Price

Zenith
Pilot
29.2430.679/21.C753

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€3,800
Zenith Defy 49.9000.9004/78.M9000

Zenith
Defy
49.9000.9004/78.M9000

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€10,235
Zenith Chronomaster 97/P384.400/22.C857

Zenith
Chronomaster
97/P384.400/22.C857

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€6,890
Zenith Defy 97.9000.9004/01.R787

Zenith
Defy
97.9000.9004/01.R787

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€6,135
Zenith Elite 03.2290.679/01.C493

Zenith
Elite
03.2290.679/01.C493

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€4,025
Zenith Defy Xtreme 95.9100.9004/01.I001

Zenith
Defy Xtreme
95.9100.9004/01.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€10,750
Zenith Pilot 96.2432.693/22.C744

Zenith
Pilot
96.2432.693/22.C744

Box
Papers
Year 2015
€4,195
Zenith Defy 49.9000.670/77.R782

Zenith
Defy
49.9000.670/77.R782

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€5,405
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.4037/01.C492

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.4037/01.C492

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€6,035
Zenith Defy 95.9000.9004/78.R582

Zenith
Defy
95.9000.9004/78.R582

Box
Papers
Year 2020
€7,990
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.679/21.C801

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.679/21.C801

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€4,460
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.679/21.C801

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.679/21.C801

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€4,460
Zenith Defy 03.9300.3620/51.I001

Zenith
Defy
03.9300.3620/51.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€7,185
Zenith Elite 03.2020.670/22.C498

Zenith
Elite
03.2020.670/22.C498

Box
Papers
Year 2015
€3,335
Zenith El Primero Stratos 51.2061.405/75.R516

Zenith
El Primero Stratos
51.2061.405/75.R516

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€6,395
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.4069/21.C773

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.4069/21.C773

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€4,020
Zenith El Primero 18.1969.469/71.C504

Zenith
El Primero
18.1969.469/71.C504

Box
Papers
Year 2016
€12,590
Zenith Pilot 03.2434.679/20.I010

Zenith
Pilot
03.2434.679/20.I010

Box
Papers
Year 2025
€3,910
Zenith Chronomaster El Primero 03.2081.400/78.M2040

Zenith
Chronomaster El Primero
03.2081.400/78.M2040

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€7,760
Zenith Pilot 11.2430.4069/21.C773

Zenith
Pilot
11.2430.4069/21.C773

Box
Papers
Year 2017
€4,540
Zenith Elite 16.3200.692/01.C832

Zenith
Elite
16.3200.692/01.C832

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€6,325
Zenith Grande Class 03.0520.4010/21.R511

Zenith
Grande Class
03.0520.4010/21.R511

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€4,310
Zenith Defy Xtreme 95.9100.9004/01.I001

Zenith
Defy Xtreme
95.9100.9004/01.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€10,750
Zenith Defy 95.9200.9004/77.I001

Zenith
Defy
95.9200.9004/77.I001

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€19,080
Zenith Pilot 96.2431.693/21.C740

Zenith
Pilot
96.2431.693/21.C740

Box
Papers
Year 2018
€4,345
Zenith Defy 10.9000.9004/96.R782

Zenith
Defy
10.9000.9004/96.R782

Box
Papers
Year 2019
€11,440
Zenith Chronomaster 03.3201.3600

Zenith
Chronomaster
03.3201.3600

Box
Papers
Year 2022
€8,540
Zenith Pilot 03.2434.679/20.I010

Zenith
Pilot
03.2434.679/20.I010

Box
Papers
Year 2024
€4,310
Zenith Defy 49.9000.670-1/22.R797

Zenith
Defy
49.9000.670-1/22.R797

Box
Papers
Year 2023
€6,750
Zenith Pilot 29.2430.4069/21.C800

Zenith
Pilot
29.2430.4069/21.C800

Box
Papers
Year 2021
€4,310
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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