Zenith claims this makes its Defy Lab the world's most accurate mechanical watch. Though portable mechanical clocks have been around since the early 16th century, it wasn't until 1675 that it was ...

“This is the most accurate mechanical watch existing in the world,” claims Guy Semon, TAG Heuer general director who runs LVMH’s R&D Institute. Semon and his team have developed a completely different ...

Zenith has re-engineered the mechanical watch movement by inventing a new single-piece oscillator that replaces the traditional hairspring/balance wheel assembly. It oscillates at a frequency ...

Swiss watchmaker Zenith recently revealed its new Defy Lab, which it claims is “the world’s most accurate mechanical watch” according to a press release from parent company LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis ...

For the past year, Zenith has been refocusing its Defy collection to be a platform for the brand’s renewed emphasis on advanced technology and materials. The first timepiece to emerge under the new ...

In the year 1675, astronomer Christiann Huygens invented a mechanism for measuring time using a combination of springs and balances. The invention was called a balance spring, and it formed the basis ...

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It may have reached the venerable age of 154. But Zenith is anything but old-fashioned. The watchmaker’s most recent incarnation of its Defy line doesn’t repeat its maker’s history — it redefines it.