Hi everyone! Long time lurker on this forum but I am active on other forums such as WUS and on Instagram. I have a Longines watch with a non-serif font dial and I can’t seem to figure out if it is a redial or not. The watch houses a 19AS automatic movement so I would believe it was created in the early 50s or late 40s? I initially thought that it was an original variant of the non-serif font dial because the letters looked pretty consistent with other original variants of the non-serif font watches and the letters look rather crisp. Also, the aging of the lume, and the watch in general is rather consistent. But then again, I am not too sure myself so I would like to seek some help from the community over here. Thank you very much and any input would be appreciated!! Because the crystal is a little scratched up, I took a picture of the words with a macro lens in order to avoid any visual distortions.
Yup I have seen that one before. I believe that the model was marketed as the Longines Eagle or something. I was just thinking that there might potentially have been a chance that they used a non-serif dial. So can we conclusively say that it is a redial? And an older one at that? I cannot imagine this being a modern redial because of the aged lume.
I disagree. This sans serif logo was only used for a short time. I've seen several examples of the OP's watch and all had the correct logo font.
This is a tough one. Taking the whole dial in condideration I`m leaning towards original. Nice radium patina match on dial and hands too.
According to Patrick Linder's book, caliber 19AS was introduced in 1952. Sans-serif signatures can be found as early as 1940 (e.g. ref. 4630), and as late as the 1950's (see example below). As for the dial in question, I am curious about a few things. Firstly, should "Automatic" be printed somewhere? Secondly, the distance between the numerals and their respective squares looks quite a bit larger than on the example below. I also note that there are printed markings at 1, 2, 4, 5 etc. that come very close to the applied markings. Again, this differs from the example below, which has no such markings. I wonder if "Swiss" is printed at 6 o'clock? And if the movement has an "LXW" import mark on the balance cock?
Yes, this is what I mentioned in my comment above. None of the examples I found have printed markers and applied markers in the same place.