Zenith El Primero A788 Automatic Chronograph 

Reserved

Zenith El Primero A788 Chronograph, with lovely blue, white colour scheme with contrasting red chronograph hand. For a chronograph, the El Primero watches have always been more wearable in size as they were made smaller than other chronograph movements with slim profiles. This one is 38 mm wide. Zenith El Primero’s second generation of chronograph watches, the A788 takes on a space-age aesthetic that defined the 1970s, with an inflated look as if liberating its steel case from gravity. It’s the early 1970s. Man has landed on the moon, and the future is full of exciting new possibilities. Space is no longer a frontier, and gravity is no longer a confinement. While the earliest references equipped with the El Primero focused on slim proportions and maintaining an air of elegance, the next generation threw out the playbook entirely and took on entirely new and unprecedented forms, while also incorporating additional functions into the world’s first automatic high-frequency chronograph calibre. The A788 stands out with its entirely brushed hexagonal cushion-shaped case with smooth lines and no visible lugs, its galvanic blue dial with contrasting silver chronograph counters and chronograph seconds track, and its pulsometer scale in lieu of the conventional tachymeter scale.

Movement 3019 PHC Automatic
Case: Stainless steel
Case back: Screw down, lightly and barely visible engraved Chicago Sweepstakes 1972
Crystal: Acrylic
Crown: Non screwed
Functions Hours and minutes in the centre, Small seconds at 9 o'clock
Chronograph: Central chronograph hand, 12-hour counter at 6 o'clock 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock
Tachymetric and pulsometric scales
Date indication at 4:30
Dimensions: Width is 38 mm, lug to lug 43 mm and 13 mm thick