Hello everyone,

Question for the group: Are there any members here who are interested in the genealogy of the Favre-Jacot family? Does anyone have any insights?
To be a bit more specific: I’m looking for a relationship to a Philippe-Henri Jacot. He must have died between 1850 and 1870. It’s likely that this person came from the line of Georges Favre Jacot’s wife, as she brought the name “Jacot” into the marriage.
However, Philippe Henri was not the father of Louise Philippine, Georges…

Any information about the genealogy of the Favre-Jacot family?

Just got this watch at local vintage watches meet. Looks like NOS, even has the Zenith tag attached with number from the caseback. The oils are so dry it doesn’t even tick (balance staff is not broken). But looks like the dial has some tiny paint specs. What do you think about the watch and the dial?
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I can’t decide between blue and black; I keep going back and forth between the two.

appreciate if you could post photo your your Skeletion. Thanks

Hello everyone,
this thread is about a special type of Zenith watch, namely pocket stopwatches and pocket watch chronographs. Zenith began developing them around the turn of the century in 1900, or rather, became interested in watches of this type. This apparently wasn’t immediately successful – the first chronograph I know of is a LeCoultre one with a Zenith bridge. So, it was purchased. I haven’t seen such a watch in the original, but there is a website where this watch is…

Zenith pocket watch chronographs and pocket stopwatches

I wanted to ask the first thing about a Zenith pocket watch.
This watch was given to me as a gift (consider that it is about 100 years old) fully functional; the problem is that I can’t trace the correct model and year (in all the time it had never been opened and so I don’t want to risk breaking everything), moreover, on the internet, I can’t even find an identical model – literally – so, I hope that someone can help me (otherwise I have to go to the shop and I have neither the time nor…

Zenith Watch

I’m wondering how many octagonal Defy models Zenith made late 60’s and early 70’s? I collected here some data and photos about the basic Defy models (some reference/catalog numbers are guesses):

-A3641(?) Green/brown sand dial with elongated indeces. Made only with cal. 2552PC.

-A3642 Grey sand dial with almost square chunky indeces. Made with cal. 2552PC and cal. 2562PC (latest versions text 28800…

Octagonal Zenith Defy models

Zenith presented the ChronoMaster at the Basel fair in 1994.

That was a good year for Zenith when during one and the same year they launched the 6 series (Elite movement), the calibre 420 hand wound El Primero (Zenith Prime) and the Zenith ChronoMaster (calibre 400 or 410)!

Here’s an excerpt from a 1994 yearbook of fine watches introducing the ChronoMaster:

A SHORT HISTORY AND OVERVIEW OF THE ZENITH CHRONOMASTER