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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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路New strap... I find it's a nice colour scheme. Looks better in real
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Syrte
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.
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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.
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DirtyDozen12
路Thank you for sharing the information from Longines' archive. When Longines states that "The other parts of the watch were produced locally under license ..." this does not necessarily mean that all parts, other than the movement, were produced locally. This is the standard wording that Longines uses when the case of a watch was not produced in Switzerland. Based on the sub-dial design of your watch, I would guess that the dial was produced by Stern Freres. I would also guess that the hands were made by a Swiss supplier.
The watch is a fantastic heirloom. It is amazing to imagine it being worn by its original owner for more than 50 years. Below is a stainless steel-cased caliber 25.173 that was invoiced to Maier (Longines' agent in China) on June 6, 1939. The serial number is 5'512'254. Of note is the cursive signature, which is atypical for the late 1930s.
Not my photo.
The watch is a fantastic heirloom. It is amazing to imagine it being worn by its original owner for more than 50 years. Below is a stainless steel-cased caliber 25.173 that was invoiced to Maier (Longines' agent in China) on June 6, 1939. The serial number is 5'512'254. Of note is the cursive signature, which is atypical for the late 1930s.
Not my photo.
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