Monday, May 10, 2010

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Zenith EL Primero Foudroyante

The aboriginal automated El Primero chip alarm with 1/10th of a additional display

• The allegorical El Primero movement developed by the Manufacture Zenith and aboriginal alien on January 10th 1969 has accepted a abiding antecedent of fascination. While all movement manufacturers were able of address automated movements for archetypal watches, none had appropriately far ventured to advance such a arrangement for a alarm movement.

• Historically accustomed as the “first alarm calibre with automated ambagious by an aquiver weight pivoting on a centrally-placed brawl address mechanism”.

Dizzying basic statistics


Making an El Primero movement involves:

• a allegorical nine months of assignment during which 20 watchmakers comedy alternating roles in developing and crafting this movement

• no beneath than 5,500 operations

• 50 milling operations of assorted ambit on the punch side

• 77 added milling operations on the arch side

• 5 and 50 operations for anniversary part

• 18 altered metals in its archetypal version

The affection of the El Primero beats at a amount of 36,000 accordance per hour or in added words

• 864,000 a day

• acceptation 315,360,000 beats per year

• one beating corresponds to the position of the batten as it swings to and fro, authoritative the alternating “tick” and “tock” sounds. As there are 3,600 abnormal in an hour (60 abnormal times 60 minutes), and back El Primero beats at a abundance of 36,000 accordance per hour, the easily absolutely appropriately accomplish 10 all-overs per second, thereby appearance off tenths of a second.


Making an El Primero movement involves:

• a allegorical nine months of assignment during which 20 watchmakers comedy alternating roles in developing and crafting this movement

• no beneath than 5,500 operations

• 50 milling operations of assorted ambit on the punch side

• 77 added milling operations on the arch side

• 5 and 50 operations for anniversary part

• 18 altered metals in its archetypal version

The affection of the El Primero beats at a amount of 36,000 accordance per hour or in added words

• 864,000 a day

• acceptation 315,360,000 beats per year

• one beating corresponds to the position of the batten as it swings to and fro, authoritative the alternating “tick” and “tock” sounds. As there are 3,600 abnormal in an hour (60 abnormal times 60 minutes), and back El Primero beats at a abundance of 36,000 accordance per hour, the easily absolutely appropriately accomplish 10 all-overs per second, thereby appearance off tenths of a second.

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