ZENITH Watches

A world leader in high-quality products, LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton (www.lvmh.fr) possesses a unique portfolio of over 60 prestigious brands. The Group is active in five different sectors: Wines & Spirits, Fashion & Leather Goods, Perfumes & Cosmetics, Watches & Jewelry, and Selective retailing. LVMH currently has around 100,000 employees, almost 80% of whom are based outside France. Zenith, which belongs to the Group’s Watches & Jewelry division, was created in 1865 by a visionary watchmaker, Georges Favre-Jacot, is located in Le Locle, Switzerland, in the exact spot where its founder built his first workshop. The Manufacture Zenith earned swift recognition for the precision of its chronometers, for which it has won 2,333 precision timing prizes in almost a century and a half of existence: an absolute record encompassing pocket watches, onboard watches and wristwatches. Active in over 50 countries around the world, Zenith designs and develops its own movements (of which it currently has 600 variations), making it part of a highly selective circle of prestigious Swiss watch “Manufactures”. Its values of Daring, Pleasure and Authenticity are expressed through the legendary El Primero calibre, an automatic integrated column-wheel chronograph movement launched in 1969 and boasting a high frequency of 36,000 vibrations per hour that ensures tenth of a second accuracy.