Defy limitations with the Zenith Defy El Primero 21

About Zenith

Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot at the age of 22, in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel. Zenith was purchased by LVMH in November 1999, becoming one of several brands in its watch and jewellery division which includes TAG Heuer and Hublot.

“Performance or elegance, complexity or minimalism, there's a Zenith watch for every kind of visionary.”

The Defy El Primero 21

A touch of contemporary elegance on the DEFY 21 1/100th of a second chronograph in titanium.

available in -

• bracelet: titanium
• rubber, blue
• black rubber and leather strap

Our watch experts opinion 

Lovely watch, 100th of a second timer which has its own power reserve and main spring to make it very accurate.

Movement

A high-frequency revolution. The El Primero 21 is the culmination of over 50 years of perfecting the automatic chronograph at the Zenith manufacture. Equipped with two regulating organs and escapements, one beating at 5Hz for timekeeping, and the other at an incredible 50Hz to offer a true 1/100th of a second chronograph display, the El Primero 21 is the chronograph calibre of the 21st century.

Features

44mm Diameter

36,000 VpH Frequency

50 Hour Power reserve

10ATM Water resistance

Functions

1/100th of a second Chronograph:

- Central chronograph hand that makes one turn each second

- 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock

- 60-second counter at 6 o'clock

- Chronograph power-reserve indication at 12 o'clock

Hours and minutes in the centre

Small seconds at 9 o'clock

Case

MATERIAL    Brushed Titanium

DIAL    Open worked with two different-coloured counters

Strap

STRAP    Leather

CLASP    Titanium double folding clasp