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Zenith Sextant Chronograph Vintage

Hello to all of you Zenith afficionados!!

As a newbie to this forum I want to share with you my latest acquisition: a Zenith Sextant Chronograph from the forties.

After collecting watches for nearly 30 years I finally found one!

This watch is on the cover from the book: "Chronograph Wristwatches, To Stop Time" by Gerd-R. Lang & Reinhard Meis.

Although the watch on that cover is not signed.

My Zenith Sextant is in astonishing good condition for it's age (last week I picked it up from my watchmaker, fully serviced).

In my opinion it's all original and functions great!

I emailed Zenith for more information about this watch, I got the disappointing answer that they could not give any information, I had to contact them through my local Zenith dealer....., which I did later, now waiting for an answer.

My watch is with the little red "North" hand on a white dial and the Zenith calibre 143-1-3 (expark 40-68), the opposite crown on the 9 works fine.

I googled a lot but there's nothing much to find, rather then it's an extremely rare watch, next to the Gallet version.

Is there someone on this forum who could tell me more about the history of my Zenith Sextant Chronograph?

Thanks a lot!!

Herm.

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