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Fantastic馃グ DIBS please
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DirtyDozen12
路路Thanks, mystery donor!
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I was wondering about that myself. Thanks for the info!
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scapa
路That is just stunning. Wow. Gotta spend more time digging into vintage Longines. In the meantime, here's my daily wearer of the week -- keeping near-atomic time and one of the few watches I can honestly say I forget I'm wearing until I look down and smile.
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LesXL
路New strap... I find it's a nice colour scheme. Looks better in real
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Syrte
路路MWR Tech Support DeptI agree that the dial is a bit of a surprise, I thought that it looked a little earlier which is why I asked about it from Longines. Looking back on it 2 years later I don't have any regrets. If it had been 'restored' by someone they did a great job.
The dial doesn鈥檛 look restored but to me it looks transplanted from another reference. The style definitely seems 1920s and seems out of place on a 1930s watch. It鈥檚 impossible to prove there鈥檚 anything amiss and it may well be just an oddball but I would have been very hesistant to spend on it, even at a much lower price.
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size11s
路The dial doesn鈥檛 look restored but to me it looks transplanted from another reference. The style definitely seems 1920s and seems out of place on a 1930s watch. It鈥檚 impossible to prove there鈥檚 anything amiss and it may well be just an oddball but I would have been very hesistant to spend on it, even at a much lower price.
I think your appraisal is pretty spot on Syrte. Damn handsome little beast though!
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DirtyDozen12
路路Thanks, mystery donor!My late grandfather purchased this Longines in 1941. It's ticking again after I cleaned and replaced its badly rusted mainspring. The 12.68Z is a very robust movement.
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lejaune
路A great movement and a neat dial on your grandfather's watch. The cursive signature is not typical on a dial from the 1940s with such a sub-dial design.
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DirtyDozen12
路路Thanks, mystery donor!You're right. According to Longines, the movement was sold to Z. Dason & Co. which was the Longines' agent in China/HongKong areas. The case and the dial were locally produced under license. I think at the time, the Swiss made dial logo had already changed to the wings and capital letters.
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lejaune
路There is not too much I can provide. I sent an email to Longines archive with the photos of the watch and of the movement back side, and here is what I received from them (with greetings and irrelevant stuff cropped out).
So, it does sound that only the movement was shipped (or bulk shipped) and the "other parts" were made locally. I though it made sense that dealers didn't need to keep many watches in their inventory. The customer would ask what case, dial design he/she wanted and the dealer would have a watchmaker assemble one for pick up a couple of days later.
This was my grandfather's only watch that I know of. He wore it everyday till his passing in 1994. It then sat in my drawer until I decided to fix it during the pandemic lock-down in 2020.
So, it does sound that only the movement was shipped (or bulk shipped) and the "other parts" were made locally. I though it made sense that dealers didn't need to keep many watches in their inventory. The customer would ask what case, dial design he/she wanted and the dealer would have a watchmaker assemble one for pick up a couple of days later.
This was my grandfather's only watch that I know of. He wore it everyday till his passing in 1994. It then sat in my drawer until I decided to fix it during the pandemic lock-down in 2020.
