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gefmey
·I'm posting some pictures of a vintage angle hour I've had for many years (25+). So far I have been unable to determine or get a definitive answer as to how or where this became a 24 hour movement. Longines has confirmed that the serial number corresponds to a 1936 manufacturing date for 11.68z movement and invoiced to Longines/Wittnaur New York in 1937. The only other information was that this was a very limited run, whatever that means. You can see from the pictures that a modification was done to get the hour hand to run a 1/2 speed to match the dial, but that really defeats the angle hour function. The dial does not look like a reproduction and is very sharp enamel, including the name. So I'm left with the question did the original owner have Wittnauer modify it, was it possibly done by a watchmaker, although the dial seems too good for a watchmaker, and this was definitely pre Asia days. All open questions, thoughts?
