Please post your vintage zenith

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As a quite fresh member I'd like to see lots of pictures of the vintage Zenith you have in your possession.
I'd like to say hello and welcome everyone!




 
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Of course the best way to see many pictures of Vintage Zeniths is simply to read through all the posts in the Zenith Forum. Vintage is pretty much all the Zenith guys around here collect 😁 .

Nice watch by the way. 👍
 
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Cal. 71 Captain

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Very nice A 384, (and a pretty nice Captain, Tony)

Of course the best way to see many pictures of Vintage Zeniths is simply to read through all the posts in the Zenith Forum.

Or have a look at the forum blog posting with the tag "Zenith": http://blog.omegaforums.net/tagged/Zenith

18 pages of Zenith-y goodness and counting👍
 
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Very nice A 384, (and a pretty nice Captain, Tony)



Or have a look at the forum blog posting with the tag "Zenith": http://blog.omegaforums.net/tagged/Zenith

18 pages of Zenith-y goodness and counting👍

Good idea, and if you click on the images it takes you to the threads containing them
 
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Terrific photos of a very sharp piece! That 133.8 movement shot would make a fine avatar... hint hint.

An older brother:

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you have a chronomètre,.
what technical difference with mine?
 
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you have a chronomètre,.
what technical difference with mine?

Mine is a cal 133 from 1848-49. Yours is a cal 133.8 from 1959. The cal 133 beats at 18000 per hour and the cal 133.8 at 21600. The cal 133 has its bumper springs fixed to the piece that stops the rotor, while the 133.8 has its bumper springs attached to the rotor itself.

My 133 was not a certified chronomètre, but this cal 133.8 was... technically identical to yours and also from 1959.

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thank you,

I read your review of 16/12/2012 and I was talking about the capitan
 
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thank you,

I read your review of 16/12/2012 and I was talking about the capitan

That's what I thought. 😀

My other cal 133.8 is a French market one, like yours. I'll post it separately one day.

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cal 2522 - I was sure that it is the first Zenith movement with date....





untill i found Zenith Horodate with cal 106-50-6 most likely from the French factory from Besançon



 
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cal 2522 - I was sure that it is the first Zenith movement with date....


untill i found Zenith Horodate with cal 106-50-6 most likely from the French factory from Besançon

Love the Horodate.

In the category of early movements with date, don't forget the cal. 71


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Very unusual piece! Thanks for sharing. You've photoshopped part of the serial number away, I gather, but there's enough to date the movement to 1952-3, a couple of years before the adoption of all the Martel-based 25xx calibres and the development of the cal 71.
 
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Very unusual piece! Thanks for sharing. You've photoshopped part of the serial number away, I gather, but there's enough to date the movement to 1952-3, a couple of years before the adoption of all the Martel-based 25xx calibres and the development of the cal 71.

case number is 900363 and cal number is 401612 - I think that boys from France had their own numbering....