A Zenith decidiu enriquecer a linha Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane com três novas peças, num tributo a três figuras emblemáticas da revolução na América do Sul: Simón Bolívar, Ernesto “Che” Guevara e Emiliano Zapata.
O Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Revolución é limitado a 3 conjuntos de três relógios cada, e a decoração é feita sobre esmalte, com micro-gravação e micro-pintura. O conjunto vem numa caixa de mogno, com pormenores de osso. As três figuras históricas estão desenhadas num papiro que está impregnado na tampa. A caixa pode transformar-se para receber 200 charutos.
O Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Revolución tributo a Simón Bolívar tem calibre de carga manual, El Primero, de alta frequência (36 mil vibrações por hora) e transmissão por fuso e corrente, garantindo força constante. Vem com sistema de controlo de gravidade através de mecanismo giroscópico auto-regulado. Autonomia de 50 horas. Caixa de 45 mm, de platina, tal como o mostrador e os ponteiros. O Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Revolución tributo a "Che" Guevara tem caixa de ouro rosa e o Academy Christophe Colomb Hurricane Revolución tributo a Emiliano Zapata tem caixa de ouro amarelo.
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Simón Bolívar (1783-1830)
What politician today can boast that he gave his name to a country? At a very young age, Venezuelan Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios showed his aptitude for a military career rather than academic pursuits. At the age of 14, he enlisted in the army and became a Second Lieutenant two years’ later. In 1798, he travelled to Europe for the first time, studying politics and political theory – such as natural law and contractualism, both pillars of political rule at the time. In 1802, he left for Europe again and got to know the prevailing thought patterns governing the Old Continent, on which he would base his convictions a few years later. After becoming a general and a politician who was both a nationalist and an anti-imperialist, he played an active role as of 1813 in the struggle for independence of Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.
It was during this year that he was awarded the honorary title of Libertador, which today remains associated with his name. Sent on a mission to London, Bolívar managed to persuade the English to put pressure on the Spanish in favour of Venezuelan interests. In 1815, he went into exile in Jamaica to think about the future of the Americas and the fate of various countries such as Venezuela, Mexico and Argentina. It was thus from there that he wrote his “Letter from Jamaica” in which one can see the influence of the Enlightenment and its great thinkers such as Montesquieu, his favourite author.
Back in Venezuela, from 1819 onwards, he contributed to the creation of Grand Colombia, a name he chose in tribute to Christopher Columbus, and of which he became the first President in 1821. The country created that year was subsequently divided into three countries in 1830: Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Simón Bolívar remains an emblematic figure in the emancipation of Spain’s South American colonies. Aside from Bolivia, a city in Venezuela is also named after him – Ciudad Bolívar – as well as a Colombian department.
Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967)
Che Guevara’s early ambition was to be a doctor. Ernesto Guevara (“Che” being a nickname used by Argentinians to label a “man”) travelled to South America during his studies and discovered the poverty in which much of the population lived. He decided that a revolution would get rid of these inequalities. He studied Marxism and went to Guatemala to learn from the reforms undertaken by the president in power: Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who was overthrown by a coup backed by the CIA.
To give his ideas some substance, he joined a Cuban revolutionary group led by a certain Fidel Castro and engaged in guerilla warfare for two years. The group overthrew dictator, Fulgencio Batista, in 1959 and took over power. Guevara held several positions in the new government, contributing among other things to Cuba’s transition to a Marxist type economy and to a rapprochement with the Eastern bloc, yet failing to industrialise the country. After having written several theoretical works on the revolution and guerrillas, and denouncing the exploitation of the third world by both sides in the Cold War, he disappeared from political life and left Cuba in an attempt to export his ideas and extend the revolution. He thus went to the Congo but received a lukewarm response, and then to Bolivia where he was captured and summarily executed by the Bolivian army, which was trained and guided by the CIA.
After his death, Che Guevara became an icon for revolutionary movements all over the world. A Cuban photographer, Alberto Korda, took his picture on the fly during a meeting held by Fidel Castro. This portrait is one of the most famous in the world, although the photographer never received a cent in royalties.
Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919)
Emiliano Zapata Salazar (the name of both his father and mother) was born in Mexico to a large and wealthy family of landowners. At a very young age, he started a transport company for construction materials and cultivated the land that belonged to him. Since 1857, the collective ownership of the land belonging to villages had not been guaranteed by the constitution. And the landowners – or hacendados – took advantage of this to seize them.
A landowner himself, Zapata adopted a style of dress akin to the hacendados, but would always be on the villagers’ side. Loved and respected by the inhabitants of his hometown, Zapata became the protector of their interests by taking the lead of a defence committee. He became involved in their fight against the powerful. From 1910, groups of guerilleros were created in which Zapata played an important role. The Mexican revolution of which they were the instigators officially started on November 20th of that year and ended with the capitulation and subsequent exile of President Porfirio Díaz on May 27th 1911. On November 25th, Zapata published the Plan of Ayala, a liberation program which included reforms. Its slogan “Reform, freedom, justice and law” was taken up by his followers and used on coins and bank notes that they began to issue.
In April 1919, Colonel Guajardo tricked Zapata into an ambush. To win his confidence, he organised an attack on his own men and went as far as killing more than 50 of them, thus instilling belief in his credibility, and promising Zapata men and weapons. Zapata fell into the trap – and armed men awaited him at the agreed meeting place and shot him at point blank range. Despite this betrayal, Emiliano Zapata still remains the architect of Mexico’s liberation, although his name has been repeatedly misused by all the presidents and politicians who followed him. .
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