Posts Tagged ‘A3817’
A3817 Zenith El Primero
Vintage Zenith chronographs pull off a trick that very few watches can. Amongst enthusiasts, they wear totally without class. I don’t mean that how it reads. I mean they seem to be effortlessly ‘right’ in just about any social strata, equally at home at some brewery in a t-shirt or at the French Laundry under…
Read MoreA3817 Zenith El Primero
There is only one watch that has combined Zenith’s A386-style tricolor subs with an A3818 Cover Girl case. It fact, it’s really the only other watch Zenith made in period besides the A386 to sport the grey-dark grey-blue. It even brought the famous ‘sharks tooth’ chronograph seconds track from the Cover Girl. But it’s not…
Read MoreA3817 Zenith El Primero
Perhaps not terribly well known, the storied A386 is not the sole Zenith chronograph to sport the famous ‘tricolore’ dial. One lesser known, latter analogue took the theme and moved the design forward substantially. Moreover, this latter four-digit reference brought in a sportier ‘cover girl’ A3818-styled tonneau case and the famous ‘sharks tooth’ seconds track,…
Read More