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·A question for the specialists:
At the beginning of the 1940s, Longines built the reference 4750, a watch with stop seconds - calibre 12.68 Z. The special feature of the watch is both a rotating engraved bezel and an additional rotating ring inside the case around the actual dial.
As far as I know, relatively few examples of this watch have been made and all of them look like the example in the attached technical description from Longines Wittnauer itself.
However, there seems to be one exception: the watch also shown here with two completely different dials. According to a statement from the manufacturer himself, this is possibly a scale for measuring speed.
Can anyone explain in more detail how this should work and what the individual numbers and digits on both the bezel and the ring around the dial mean in detail - how they were used 🤔?
At the beginning of the 1940s, Longines built the reference 4750, a watch with stop seconds - calibre 12.68 Z. The special feature of the watch is both a rotating engraved bezel and an additional rotating ring inside the case around the actual dial.
As far as I know, relatively few examples of this watch have been made and all of them look like the example in the attached technical description from Longines Wittnauer itself.
However, there seems to be one exception: the watch also shown here with two completely different dials. According to a statement from the manufacturer himself, this is possibly a scale for measuring speed.
Can anyone explain in more detail how this should work and what the individual numbers and digits on both the bezel and the ring around the dial mean in detail - how they were used 🤔?
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