This watch comes with a titanium ladder style bracelet - a distinctive look originally designed by Gay Frères, made even more outstanding thanks to the highly polished centre links. The blue dial also stands out.The blue-sunray brushed finish is called Superman blue, and with that red second hand and the crisp white dial details and Super-LumiNova certainly lives up to the Man of Steel’s standards. But slide it onto your wrist, and the light weight becomes immediately apparent. It’s somewhat ironic that the biggest change - the use of grade 5 titanium for the case and bracelet isn’t immediately apparent, as the finishes stick to the looks of the 1971 original. But make no mistake, this watch is no lightweight - in fact, it’s a fitting 50th-anniversary tribute to the barrel-cased A3818. And this watch lives up to its name, weighing in at 78.2 grams, some 32.4 grams less than a steel equivalent. It comes on a vintage textured NSA bracelet from a small retailer in Japan.įind this A3818 Cover Girl here from Eguchi Japan for ~21000 USD.The latest collaboration between Zenith and Revolution & The Rake is the Chronomaster Revival A3818 “The Airweight Covergirl”. The movement has been serviced recently by the seller. Tritium tones have yellowed, matched evenly in all applications. The dial displays brilliantly, with little to no visible damage from its half century of existence. If the case has seen a polish, it’s nothing abhorrent. Its angular surfaces are proud, with polished and brushed sections still sharply divided. This example has the kind of dial and case we very rarely see. When asked why he chose the A3818 for his cover, he simply stated ‘The beautiful blue colour led to this decision. However, the modern-day obsession with rarity didn’t factory in Rossler’s decision. That makes this both one of the rarest and highly-collected Zeniths of all time. Total production stopped at 1000 examples, as confirmed by Zenith SA. That calibre was housed in the highly-faceted tonneau-ish 37mm case first seen on the A384/5. Important points like the technically-advanced (taking seven years to develop) 3019 PHC remained. The dial is what many call petrol blue, but with contrasting subdial tracks in black and light blue. In addition, the four-line text signature is printed slightly differently than other El Primero references of the era. The beautiful shark’s tooth seconds track pattern you see here is a result of practically seeking to visually display granularity this movement was capable of measuring. This dial embraced the 36000 vph beat rate by demarcating 300 fine marks accurate to one-fifth of a second, in line with the 5Hz pulse. The Cover Girl was a small-production dial variant released just after the first-ever El Primeros. So what watch could possibly grace its exterior? You guessed it, hence the moniker. Manfred Rossler’s Zenith: Swiss Watch Manufacture Since 1865 is one of the if not thee definitive texts of Zenith collecting. For vintage hi-beat heroes, it really doesn’t get much better. The Cover Girl isn’t just a pretty dial, but one of the rarest and most nuanced El Primeros ever. Obscure Pokémon references aside, that changed today when this gem was listed. I once described Zenith’s easy, breezy, beautiful 1971 Cover Girl both legendary and seemingly unattainable, something of a Mewtwo amongst El Primeros. Make no mistake, this is no revival reissue.
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