It’s amazing how that thing can be dressed up. Kind of like seeing your mechanic friend who is always i in coveralls and smeared with grease wearing a suit-you have to do a double-take.
That is a beautiful looking watch. So was the Longines sold to the German Navy at some time? I ask because I have a modern Laco Navy 36 which, according to Laco "The requirements to start constructing them came from the German Marine Observatory in Hamburg, and only a few factories were able to fulfill them in the 1940s. Laco was one of those companies. Today's watches are still oriented toward the look of yesteryear in their appearance."
Haha, perhaps a challenge? To say something like “Nice hands” or “Sharp case” or “insert” out there in the real world, to normal people!