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Zenith SA is a luxury Swiss watch ''manufacture'' started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot at the age of 22, in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Georges Favre-Jacot )〕 Zenith was purchased by LVMH in November 1999, becoming one of several brands in their watch and jewellery division. The CEO of the company is Aldo Magada, who replaced Jean-Frédéric Dufour in 2014.〔http://en.worldtempus.com/article/industry-news/zenith-aldo-magada-new-ceo-1577611〕 Zenith has a long reputation for the quality and precision of their watches. It is one of the Swiss watch manufacturers that still produce their own movements in-house. The ''El Primero'' calibre, which was first released in 1969, though still produced today, was one of the first automatic chronograph movements and has a frequency of 36,000 alternations per hour (5 Hz). This high rate allows a resolution of of a second and a potential for greater positional accuracy over the more common standard frequency of 28,800 alternations per hour (4 Hz).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Stainless-Steel Zenith El Primero Chronomaster )〕 The El Primero was honoured with a 2012 release of the El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th, limited to 1,969 pieces (in honour of the original 1969 release date), that housed the same 36,000 vph movement and a sub-dial measuring in tenths of a second to make a complete rotation every ten seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Watches of 2012: Zenith El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th )〕 ==Georges Favre-Jacot== Favre-Jacot was born 1843 and died 1917. He was an apprentice within the watch making industry whilst within his youth. Favre-Jacot at some time requested a house be built for himself at Le Locle, from the architect ''Le Corbusier'', 〔A. Flint - (Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow ) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 4 Nov 2014, 256 pages, ISBN 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zenith (watchmaker)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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