Credits: Article and images by Jeremiah Chan @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/the-zenith-calibre-135-observatoire-limited-edition-is-a-surprising-masterstroke/
Zenith has sourced 10 of these historic movements from their archives, dated between 1950 and 1954. these actual movements were awarded prizes and worked on at the time by Zenith’s maestros of precision, Charles Fleck and René Gygax. In preparation for this celebratory series, the movements were worked on by another watchmaker, Kari Voutilainen, who took the unadorned historic movements and, without compromising them in any way, turned them into works of art, without compromising the chronometry in any way. Hand chamfering, polished edges, bevelled screw heads, snailing, circular graining and more. These reworked calibre 130-O’s look as good as they perform.
Around this historically significant calibre, the platinum case, and historically inspired dial has been crafted, all presented in a walnut box based off the cases Zenith’s chronometry calibres were transported in.
Credits: Article and images by Jeremiah Chan @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/the-zenith-calibre-135-observatoire-limited-edition-is-a-surprising-masterstroke/