Zenith El Primero A386
- Maker
- Zenith
- Year
- 1969 original / current Chronomaster Revival A386
- Rank
- 94 of 100
- Identifier
- El Primero A386 (37mm tri-color chronograph, 1969 first-gen high-beat)
Zenith El Primero A386
Market asking price, not a sale: $16,000, dated 2026-06. This is not a sale. It is what the market was asking, and no transaction is recorded behind it.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
Houses the 1969 El Primero, the first automatic high-beat (36,000 vph) chronograph; the A386 tri-color is the movement's defining original.
El Primero A386 (37mm tri-color chronograph, 1969 first-gen high-beat)
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $16,000
- Kind
- Market asking price, not a sale
- Date
- 2026-06
This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown, and asking prices sit above what buyers pay more often than not. Read it as a ceiling on the market's opinion at that moment, not as a value.
By reference price, Zenith El Primero A386 is number 72 of 100 in the watches entries of the FLOAT 100. 23 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (94 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08
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