Favre-Leuba Cal 135

A myth, a legend... Something I saw some 13 years ago, and I missed the opportunity, with big, huge regrets. One of the best manual winding chronometers, here. Best, Nicolas

Ulysse Nardin, because if they are pure horological wizards, Girard Perregaux with their exquisite Tourbillons with Bridges, Tudor with their vintage marvels and some very cool modern creations, Blancpain mostly because of their vintage Fifty Fathoms, Zen

In the world of fine chronometers, I mean manual winding ones, you have the Vacheron Chronometre Royal, the Jaeger Lecoultre Geophysic, the Omega Cal 30, the Zenith Cal 135 and the Peseux 260 used by some brands such as Breguet, or the Technicum Le Locle

The white one is superb, too. But movements speaking... Anyway, Favre Leuba is a very interesting brand which released some great watches, such as the Bathy or the Bivouac, for example. I was not sure you found the Black one! Bravo. Bravo as well for this

Friends, I am currently going through my list of inventory and fell on this one in the list. The Zenith Favre-Leuba Chronometre, calibre 135. I think it is a stunning watch but I never got around to wear or share it a lot here… In fact, I even don’t have

Longines Big 11 or 13 ZN, Tudor 7922, Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Vintage Rotomatic Incabloc, Vintage Fifty Fathoms No Rad Bund, Vintage Fifty Fathoms Barakuda, Rolex 6536, Tissot 33.3 Chronograph, Tissot Navigator world time vintage, Bretiling Superocean Vin

36, I think, with the delicious co signed Favre Leuba black dial... 37, 5 mm, I never saw in the flesh. ;) As for Longines, I agree on most of your points. Another Manufacture did some outstanding watches, from the innovation point of view... Jaeger Lecou

Thanks for this excellent and passionate article, Nilo. I much less know Zenith than you, for sure. And much less love the brand. Still, I am hunting several watches from the brand, such as the Zenith Special, the EP 1969, but the original, the Cal 135 (

Well, let's see what I have... Omega Ck 2998, Omega 33.3, Longines Manual Chronometer, Longines 30 CH Diving, Beba Chronometer, IWC 666 without date, and Ref 812, JLC Polaris II Red, JLC Memovox Ref 3160 ( So called WT ) , E 855 Blue Scale dial, and E 110