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What vintage Longines is on your wrist today?
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bubba48
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·I like the black dial Longines:
But I also like this evening wear Longines:
But I also like this evening wear Longines:
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Spruce
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Those Admiral Five Stars are rather lovely. I’ve tried to find resources on them without much success - they are interesting because similar case styles seem to have been produced over the years with different movements inside (in-house 506 and then 6651 calibres, then the ETA based L633.1). I’d love to see a comprehensive treatment of all of the different references!
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Spruce
··Sunburst dial fanThose Admiral Five Stars are rather lovely. I’ve tried to find resources on them without much success - they are interesting because similar case styles seem to have been produced over the years with different movements inside (in-house 506 and then 6651 calibres, then the ETA based L633.1). I’d love to see a comprehensive treatment of all of the different references!
Cal 505 models have a date advance facility - by pushing in the crown - and some have a cal 431 movement.
For whatever reasons, the dials are nearly always pristine and, because the cases are polished, it’s generally easy to polish out scratches whilst retaining the original shape and sharpness.
I have (limited myself to) five but generally they seem more available in Asia and the US than in Europe.
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That's a beautiful example Juergen! Makes me miss my old one.
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J_pilot
·That's a beautiful example Juergen! Makes me miss my old one.
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Man_in_pub
·Wearing my Ultra Chron today.
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The white dials on these watches often look quite different in different types of light, but it’s more often a sepia tone that comes out in certain strong light and disappears in others.
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Man_in_pub
·Nice! Is that dial actually grey, or is it just the lighting on a silver/white dial, or a perhaps a silver/white dial that has aged to grey?
The white dials on these watches often look quite different in different types of light, but it’s more often a sepia tone that comes out in certain strong light and disappears in others.
Good question, I've always considered it as a grey'ish silver sunburst dial. The sunburst effect is still there and depending on light of the day it goes from light to dark. It's aged well.
Here's a blog on the different dials/cases: https://www.moonagewatches.com/post...-jumbo-models-part-3-dial-and-hand-variations
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Neeb
·Cheers!
Good question, I've always considered it as a grey'ish silver sunburst dial. The sunburst effect is still there and depending on light of the day it goes from light to dark. It's aged well.
Here's a blog on the different dials/cases: https://www.moonagewatches.com/post...-jumbo-models-part-3-dial-and-hand-variations
I have a thing for those models.
I’ve looked at a lot of images and never seen a dial that convincingly looks as if it was intentionally light grey to begin with, although quite a few like yours that are on the greyish side of silver/white. Others seem to go almost yellow, but also with that tendency to shift according to the light. There’s something slightly pearlescent in the lacquer on these dials that perhaps refracts light in certain ways, this in turn maybe interacting with the way that the pigments have aged?
Although it’s a cliche, it’s one of the wonderful things about vintage watches, the way that 50 or 60 years will affect every single watch slightly differently, probably depending on the daily light regime and air environment it’s been exposed to over many decades.
Really nice example!
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Man_in_pub
·That’s my blog! 🙂
I have a thing for those models.
I’ve looked at a lot of images and never seen a dial that convincingly looks as if it was intentionally light grey to begin with, although quite a few like yours that are on the greyish side of silver/white. Others seem to go almost yellow, but also with that tendency to shift according to the light. There’s something slightly pearlescent in the lacquer on these dials that perhaps refracts light in certain ways, this in turn maybe interacting with the way that the pigments have aged?
Although it’s a cliche, it’s one of the wonderful things about vintage watches, the way that 50 or 60 years will affect every single watch slightly differently, probably depending on the daily light regime and air environment it’s been exposed to over many decades.
Really nice example!
It's funny how the type of light affects the dial on this one. Actually, the picture you used in that blog from Mitka is the very same watch. In that picture it's more white'ish.
Now to get a black dial with the original bracelet!
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Man_in_pub
·Ha! Small world. 😀 I really like your blog!
It's funny how the type of light affects the dial on this one. Actually, the picture you used in that blog from Mitka is the very same watch. In that picture it's more white'ish.
Now to get a black dial with the original bracelet!
Further to your request, we are pleased to provide the information contained in Longines' handwritten registers.
Originally, the serial number 14'707'665 identifies a wristwatch in stainless steel bearing the reference 7951, part of the Ultra-Chron collection. It is fitted with a Longines mechanical self-winding movement, caliber 431. It was invoiced on 10 February 1969 to the company Interkomerc, which was at that time our agent in Belgrade.
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