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·Last week, some of you might have noticed that a lady's Longines watch popped up on our excellent Private Watch Sales sub-forum.
Ms @Syrte, having great taste and flair, quickly noticed it... And, she was kind enough to give me priority so I could buy it (encore merci!)... Well, because, "I'm a Lady, you see..." as the great Emily Howard would say 😀
Rather because, as I had mention on the sale thread, I'd like to gift the watch to my niece who is also my goddaughter. Florence is a lovely young lady now 20 years of age, who I love dearly, and with whom I am lucky to have much caring relationship.
A few months ago, during one of long walk together (as ther was nothing else to do during the lock downs), she seemed interested on the "vintage" watch I was wearing that day. We ended having a great discussion about watches, showing her some pictures of my small collections,as well as, some of the WRUW section pictures too.
Since then, on a few occasion, she has mentioned that she might be interested on a "vintage" watch for herself...
So, one of the main reasons I wanted the watch, for sale last week, was that she had previously seen my Longines Sei Tacche. And she had actually quite liked it... But I told... "honey, I don't like you quite that much yet", as she can successfully charm her way sometimes for me to give her what is mine! Obviously, when I saw a similar lady version for sale, I immediately thought it'd be cool to both have the "same" watches. And most importantly, I'm keeping mine!!!
Which brings us to the story of this thread, as I have just received yesterday the watch, and I'm very pleased! Now, I got 2 weeks before Florence comes to visit me (she lives in Switzerland) to get everything ready!
First, here is the watch with the bracelet:
Here it is next to my watch (that Im' keeping!!):
Though she is very slim, I still believe the bracelet will be too small for her wrist, so I've removed it as it can't be adjusted at all.
So now, the watch is going tomorrow to my watchmaker as it is indeed not keeping time, losing a few hours as it was mentioned on the sale post. No surprised there! Hopefully, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to have it serviced.
Here is a picture of the movement and case back. Both case back and lug have the same 300 number which is good to see:
If anybody would be able to share some information on the caliber, I'd be grateful as I can't read any caliber reference. Looks like a 8LN, but shouldn't it be engraved under the Longines reference number?
In addition, I have just sent a request for information to Longines, hoping I can get a bit of history of the watch I'd be able to share with her. From the serial number, and guessing there are no differences between Gents and Ladies ones, the watch seems to have been from ca. 1944.
Next step will be to find a nice leather strap! As you can see, the pins are welded, and based on my measurements, they are 13mm size.
That will probably be the tricky part I guess... well, I think I'll have to go custom-made for this, and the challenge will be to have it ready in 2 weeks time. Again, if anyone would have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it!
Voilà, first update on the gift preparation! I'm really excited about it, and will report back once I get more inputs 😀
Thank you all for reading!
Ms @Syrte, having great taste and flair, quickly noticed it... And, she was kind enough to give me priority so I could buy it (encore merci!)... Well, because, "I'm a Lady, you see..." as the great Emily Howard would say 😀
Rather because, as I had mention on the sale thread, I'd like to gift the watch to my niece who is also my goddaughter. Florence is a lovely young lady now 20 years of age, who I love dearly, and with whom I am lucky to have much caring relationship.
A few months ago, during one of long walk together (as ther was nothing else to do during the lock downs), she seemed interested on the "vintage" watch I was wearing that day. We ended having a great discussion about watches, showing her some pictures of my small collections,as well as, some of the WRUW section pictures too.
Since then, on a few occasion, she has mentioned that she might be interested on a "vintage" watch for herself...
So, one of the main reasons I wanted the watch, for sale last week, was that she had previously seen my Longines Sei Tacche. And she had actually quite liked it... But I told... "honey, I don't like you quite that much yet", as she can successfully charm her way sometimes for me to give her what is mine! Obviously, when I saw a similar lady version for sale, I immediately thought it'd be cool to both have the "same" watches. And most importantly, I'm keeping mine!!!
Which brings us to the story of this thread, as I have just received yesterday the watch, and I'm very pleased! Now, I got 2 weeks before Florence comes to visit me (she lives in Switzerland) to get everything ready!
First, here is the watch with the bracelet:
Here it is next to my watch (that Im' keeping!!):
Though she is very slim, I still believe the bracelet will be too small for her wrist, so I've removed it as it can't be adjusted at all.
So now, the watch is going tomorrow to my watchmaker as it is indeed not keeping time, losing a few hours as it was mentioned on the sale post. No surprised there! Hopefully, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to have it serviced.
Here is a picture of the movement and case back. Both case back and lug have the same 300 number which is good to see:
If anybody would be able to share some information on the caliber, I'd be grateful as I can't read any caliber reference. Looks like a 8LN, but shouldn't it be engraved under the Longines reference number?
In addition, I have just sent a request for information to Longines, hoping I can get a bit of history of the watch I'd be able to share with her. From the serial number, and guessing there are no differences between Gents and Ladies ones, the watch seems to have been from ca. 1944.
Next step will be to find a nice leather strap! As you can see, the pins are welded, and based on my measurements, they are 13mm size.
That will probably be the tricky part I guess... well, I think I'll have to go custom-made for this, and the challenge will be to have it ready in 2 weeks time. Again, if anyone would have any suggestions, I'd appreciate it!
Voilà, first update on the gift preparation! I'm really excited about it, and will report back once I get more inputs 😀
Thank you all for reading!
