Georges Favre-Jacot established the first watch manufacture in the history of watchmaking in 1865 naming it Zenith. It refers to the highest point reached by a heavenly body in the sky and thereby symbolizing the heights of excellence to which the brand has aspired to ever since.

Since its establishment in 1865, Zenith became the first watch manufacture in the modern sense of the term, and its watches have accompanied extraordinary figures that dreamt big and strived to achieve the impossible – from Louis Blériot’s history-making flight across the English Channel to Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting stratospheric free-fall jump.