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路路Carpe horologium!Today, I decided to give a few 'box queens' some exercise.
So I 'double-dogged', (or, @Mad Dog -ed 馃槈) my circa-1950 caliber 22's from the hammock:
First produced in 1945, these cal. 22's were the very first automatic movements by Longines.
Dennis ( @ulackfocus ) wrote a wonderful sticky on these, and the other early Longines automatic movements which you can read here:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/longines-vintage-automatics.411/
And now, for your viewing pleasure, here are my two, a 14k cal. 22A, and a 14k cal. 22AS (central seconds):
22A:
22AS:
(For those who may wonder, color saturation was added into the final photo; guess it's pretty obvious 馃槻馃榿)
So I 'double-dogged', (or, @Mad Dog -ed 馃槈) my circa-1950 caliber 22's from the hammock:
First produced in 1945, these cal. 22's were the very first automatic movements by Longines.
Dennis ( @ulackfocus ) wrote a wonderful sticky on these, and the other early Longines automatic movements which you can read here:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/longines-vintage-automatics.411/
And now, for your viewing pleasure, here are my two, a 14k cal. 22A, and a 14k cal. 22AS (central seconds):
22A:
22AS:
(For those who may wonder, color saturation was added into the final photo; guess it's pretty obvious 馃槻馃榿)
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