Zenith equivalent to the deluxe constellation?

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Looks like a clean 2 register chronograph.

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Not sure about this one...

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Reminds me a bit of the mid-60s cal. 321 seamaster chronographs

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Are you sure? Looks original to me but then I don't really know nearly enough about zeniths

 

You're certainly getting into this rather enthusiastically, another ebay search term to try 50 times a day lol

 

Too much unfinished business with vintage omegas and still too much to learn there still. But glad to help out in the zenith forum which it looks to me to be growing quite fast.

 

On the other hand, some smart picks now could save you a lot of cash once the Zenith top shelfs that people don't already know about (aside from Cal 135s and A386s and such) start going up like pie-pans and Speedmasters have.

 

The Captain line was indeed Zenith's luxury market player, equivalent to Constellations and Conquests. One of the members (not me) is...ah...interested in this, and will draw blood to get it. Enter the arena at your own risk.

Indeed it does, although I've never seen this model. The various parts check out, including the ExPark movement, but there is something I don't like about the subdial printing. Seems a little fuzzy. Not saying its not authentic, but it makes me a little gunshy.

Raging franken. This is a dial and movement from an 18K white gold Captain DeLuxe in the characteristic "turtle" case. Should look like this.


The case has obviously been melted.

One version of Zenith's workhorse chronograph 1960-1969. Bits look correct including crown and often-replaced hands. Looks like it's seen hard use tho. And its from Argentina, not from one of the two sellers that I know as reliable. Bit if a gamble, but might be nice pickup. Buy at your own risk.

Here's an NOS two dial square-pusher version in 18K that I happen to have picked up a few years ago.

That's an interesting topic - I doubt that there will ever be the collector market for Zenith that there is for Omega, mostly because of name recognition, but also because of lack of documentation and support from the factory. The index pieces will go up to be sure, but it's not clear to me that prices will rise on a broad front.

 

I think this forum at the rate it's going will play some small role in elevating vintage zeniths - more and more enthusiasts will be exposed and educated about the merits and pitfalls of this corner of the vintage watch world. Vintage omegas were the same way - Desmond talked about constellations; Chuck Maddox, Eric Katoso, GerryL and many others about speedmasters; Bill Sohne, Ben, Erich, Franco and others about manual wind chronometres; Bill Sohne about bumper chronometres and so forth and so on. Perhaps in some small way we can emulate that in this forum.