This is news.
Hodinkee just announced a limited edition of 25 watches El Primero with Zenith, designed for lovers of vintage watches, at 38mm with grey dial, $7900 .

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/in...l-for-hodinkee

 

Love it. the a386 is one of my absolute faves, and i have always liked the A271 dial. a great combination. I like how they kept it vintage. 38mm is perfect for me.

 

Very attractive face; much too busy behind.

 

Grey sunburst... omg in love. 38mm. Yummy

 

An $8k watch though ????

 

That's a VERY NFW!!!!!

 

Very nice but the registers are maybe too large / too close together, gives it a slightly cross-eyed look. 38mm no-date is awesome though, if they're not already sold out I doubt they'll last long!

 

just missing a little bit of pink

 

No date wheel is my favorite part!

 

sold out

 

that was quick. when i posted there were some left.

 

Wonder what these will go for on Ebay next week.

 

Would be interesting to try to put a ladder bracelet with ZJs on this watch (if the case is truly exactly the same)

 

damn, thats a nice looking watch.

 

I agree they did a good job on the vintage look, and the grey dial looks very nice overall, but I find the registers are too close together, "cross-eyed" or whatever it's called.

 

In the introduction post they mention that the case is modeled after the A386 and while not exact it looks pretty close:



That being said I agree with @abrod520's observation of the ever so slight imbalance of the dial - the A386 has the benefit of the dark base100 track which helps frame the subdials in the available dial space, while the cal146 pushes the subdials all the way out towards the tachymetre track, thus giving it a wide-eyed look which is more aesthetically pleasing. The Hodinkee LE El Primero has that pushed-in look due to the space between grey space between outer edges of the subdials and the tachymetre track.
Given it's due to the movement constraints, they could have kept some sort of inner track or extended the hashes to try to offset the empty space.
But the color and finish of the dial is quite gorgeous, and bravo for having it certified as a chronometre.

 

Would have preferred they keeping the recessed subdials that both the A27X and A386 had - the new dial feels (and is) flat. And what's up with the small crown!? But all in all, a fantastic job in catering to us vintage nuts!