ZENITH El Primero Striking 10th Challenge

This amusing Zenith competition is scheduled to run from 15 December 2010 until midnight on 30 January 2011 on the Zenith website.

The game is very tense and challenging. The player starts the chronograph, the time appears – and the chrono must be stopped. Players continue to the next level at each check point until they make a mistake. The world champion will be the person to achieve the highest score!

Everyone with a Facebook account can connect and take its chance. If you don t have a Facebook account, you can register completely free of charge and validate as participant in the Contest. The winner will be selected through a drawing/draw among all participants having reached the highest score, at the latest, 15 days after the end of the competition.
The great winner will have a chance to get his own El Primero Striking 10th, with an estimated value of €8,000.

Just for the record, the legendary El Primero Striking 10th was the world's first automatic chronograph to beat at a rate of 10 vibrations per second. The model presented at Baselworld 2010, has the most sophisticated mechanical motor, boasting the highest degree of precision. This timepiece bears a remarkable resemblance to Zenith’s 1960s and '70s chronographs. It is capable of timing events with accuracy down to 1/10 of a second, due to its “high beat” movement, which oscillates 36,000 times per hour, or 10 times per second. Other chronographs usually oscillate at five or eight times per second.

This watch is a grand return for Zenith and truly provides the definite reason for the brand’s success. Crafted in 42mm stainless steel case, the watch utilizes Zenith in-house El Primero caliber 4052B, with over 50 hours of autonomy.

Zenith produced only 1.969 pieces as a symbolic celebration of the 40th anniversary of the El Primero which, created in 1969. It was the year of great revolutions when man first landed on Moon and the new symbol of excellence emerged – El Primero, the first integrated automatic chronograph movement capable of measuring short periods of time with one tenth of a second accuracy.

El Primero Striking 10th Challenge has begun! Will you dare to take the challenge?