製造商: Zenith 年份: 2020 型號名稱: Lupin The Third Unique Piece 材料: Stainless steel 機芯: Automatic, El-Primero, 31 jewels 錶帶/ 錶鏈: Stainless steel ladder bracelet measuring 210 mm max 錶扣: Stainless steel Zenith deployant clasp 尺寸: 45mm length X 35mm wide 簽名: Case, dial, movement and bracelet signed 配件: Accompanied by special Lupin the Third box and Zenith Guarantee
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No estimate can be provided given the uniqueness of the watch and the noble nature of the charitable cause.
Late 2019 Zenith presented an incredibly attractive watch based on… a Japanese manga!
Lupin the Third was born in 1967 under the pen of Monkey Punch, it is a cartoon that follows the escapades of master thief Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène Lupin, the famed French gentleman. In 1971, only 2 years after the launch of the iconic El Primero caliber, the anime series of Lupin the Third was aired for the very first time. One of the main characters in the story, Mr. Daisuke Jigen, a debonair partner of the main protagonist Lupin, is depicted wearing a Zenith A384 watch on two occasions of first episode.
Taking inspiration by Zenith's A384 with its easily recognizable tonneau case and dial configuration. Jigen’s watch did not exist and was straight from Monkey Punch’s imagination with it’s black dial, grey subdials and gold hands and markers. The brand name and the printing habitually found on the A384 were also incorrectly reproduced on the dial.
Zenith used the design found in the 1971 cartoon to create a 50 piece limited edition in 2019 and available only in Japan, needless to say the series sold out in no time.
After the incredible success of the limited edition, Zenith has decided to create a unique A384 Revival Lupin the Third edition which replicates the dial of Jigen’s watch including the misspellings. On the dial of the present piece the Z and H of Zenith are slightly blanked out thus seeing that the brand name is ENIT, Automatic is also written Automntic.
Charismatic and graphic the present example, made as a unique piece, is not only a visually enchanting timepiece but it also serves a good deed. All proceeds of the sale will go to Zoé4life a registered non-profit organization, recognized as a public service utility whose mission is to support research, provide financial support to families in need, support kids during their treatments and raise awareness about childhood cancer.
Since Zenith's beginnings, founder George Favre-Jacot sought to manufacture precision timepieces, realizing quality control was best maintained when production was housed under one roof. Zenith remains one of the few Swiss manufacturers to produce their own in-house movements to this day.
Today, the brand is best known for the "El Primero," the firm's most successful automatic chronograph movement. In an interesting twist of fate, the company that owned Zenith during the 1970s decided to move on to quartz movements and therefore sought to destroy the parts and tools necessary to make mechanical movements. One watchmaker realized this folly and hid the tools and parts before they were destroyed. In 1984, he returned them to Zenith so they could once again make the El Primero movement.