There among the countless artifacts was a box and in it, the original prototype of the black chronograph that hadn’t been seen by anyone since the early 1970’s. In 2019, the team at the manufacture began to go through the secret walled-off attic where Charles Vermot had once hidden all the plans and parts necessary to produce the El Primero movement. Many watchmakers and longtime employees of Zenith had heard of and even seen one of the rare prototypes, even though official records about this piece are extremely scarce. Only a handful of this spectral prototype was made, but the model was never officially produced or commercialized. In 1970, not long after Zenith introduced the groundbreaking El Primero calibre, the manufacture had produced a prototype of a manual-winding chronograph, housed in a blackened steel case – a rarity for the time. The Zenith Chronomaster Revival “Shadow” is inspired by a mysterious prototype chronograph from 1970.
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