I should know by now not to look at ebay after a 30 hour on-call shift, but sometimes I can't help myself. One-click ordering with Paypal is very dangerous. I think the "no scratches on the crytall" got me. A later flagship model in manual wind, hopefully a 285 movement, which would be my first manual wind Longines with a date function (always on the lookout for a 23ZD or 23 ZSD but haven't found one to pull the trigger on quite yet). Will post pictures when it arrives. Apparently Canada post has a work-stoppage issue and shipping may be delayed.

Kind of feel silly posting all my totally uncool, no-name Longines when everybody else is showing beautiful Conquest, vintage European-cased, or chronograph models. I will admit to being more interested in the movements than the cases they come in, so I have a tons of different movements in ho-hum cases. On the lookout for a 995/6/7/8 if anybody comes across one.

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I like that one, and a good price, too!

 

I love that. Great looking watch!!

DIBS!!

 

It's certainly a 28x, probably a 285. Nice score!

 

Price of a few bottles of wine and a pizza. Sweet deal.....

 

Came yesterday, in better shape than I thought it would. Two small blemishes on crystal that my watchmaker shouldn't have any trouble with. Crown not original but for the price, I'm not complaining. It's supposed to have a 285 movement like ulackfocus noted. Will see at service time. I can't open these front loaders and don't have the magic "admiral wrench".

 

Very tempted but probably would result in wanton watch abuse.

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The correct tool is useless unless the user knows the proper way to split the stem to remove the crown.