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Zenith El Primero (De Luca) MK 1

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Zenith El Primero (De Luca) 01.0040.400 - MK1 - a rare watch with a world class movement. The black dial "De Luca" MK1 - was produced only in 1988 and 89 in a total of 1,025 pieces (per the big Manfred Rössler Zenith book).
  • Case: exc condition with expected wear from a 31+ year old watch. Wears beautifully, all stainless steel 40mm w/o crown with 22 mm lugs. Correct unsigned crown and small logo screw caseback. Exc condition bezel with silver print and nicely aged pip. Plexi crystal.
  • Dial: near mint black gloss dial with silver print and silver sub dials. Tritium lume has evenly aged to a warm cream color.
  • Movement: automatic chronograph movement with caliber El Primero 400, 31 jewels and 36,000 A/h. Winds smooth, all chrono functions work, date advances as it should, last service unknown.
  • Bracelet: Zenith signed bracelet in very good condition with a total of 12 links.
  • $6,895 plus shipping. US ship only please.
Many references, you can see the watch in my IG feed under the same user name.
Thank you, Russ

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No longer for sale - thank you OF for the platform! Russ

Then kindly change the prefix of your thread to 'withdrawn' by editing the title (its two mouseclicks and would have been less effort than typing) 👍...
 
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The two tone in the photos above is also lovely. Is that a mid-90's Rainbow, by chance or is it a variation of the De Luca?
 
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amcclell amcclell
The two tone in the photos above is also lovely. Is that a mid-90's Rainbow, by chance or is it a variation of the De Luca?
One of the reasons I love this place- everything but the primary object:

Nice brick work, is that common or Dutch bond?

I see you may have aphids in your shrubbery, I have an organic method to get rid of them

Is that a poly or Tung oil finish on the table?
 
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One of the reasons I love this place- everything but the primary object:

Nice brick work, is that common or Dutch bond?

I see you may have aphids in your shrubbery, I have an organic method to get rid of them

Is that a poly or Tung oil finish on the table?
I appreciate the De Luca but I happen to have a 1993 blue dial 2 tone rainbow, so I was curious. The Rainbows had a 5 link bracelet but had screw pushers like the one that is above. I suspect it is a De Luca but was simply too lazy to search whether Delucas ever came with the screw down pushers.

I just searched and answered my own question - they appear to be Mark ii style, non-screw pushers.
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JwRosenthal JwRosenthal
One of the reasons I love this place- everything but the primary object:

Nice brick work, is that common or Dutch bond?

I see you may have aphids in your shrubbery, I have an organic method to get rid of them

Is that a poly or Tung oil finish on the table?
Seriously? It's a running bond. Been away from the field for too long?

😁
 
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Seriously? It's a running bond. Been away from the field for too long?
Thank you for keeping me strait! It’s been a while.

OP, this watch is a stunner and now in my top 10 list. I would take that sucker over a Daytona any day of the week- twice on Sundays. Did you decide to keep it or sell it elsewhere?
 
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JwRosenthal JwRosenthal
Thank you for keeping me strait! It’s been a while.

OP, this watch is a stunner and now in my top 10 list. I would take that sucker over a Daytona any day of the week- twice on Sundays. Did you decide to keep it or sell it elsewhere?
Ended us selling to a US based buyer OF member.
 
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Sold - thank you again OF for the platform and allowing me to be part of the community - and congrats to the new owner, an OF member and Zenith collector.
JwRosenthal - ithe Mk 1 is a stunner - BTW on Chrono24 there are 4,513 Daytonas for sale vs a total of just 20 De Lucas.
Russ
 
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Sold - thank you again OF for the platform and allowing me to be part of the community - and congrats to the new owner, an OF member and Zenith collector.
JwRosenthal - ithe Mk 1 is a stunner - BTW on Chrono24 there are 4,513 Daytonas for sale vs a total of just 20 De Lucas.
Russ
Yeah, that doesn’t fill me with hope. 🙁
 
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