Longines - NAWCC Forums Longines founded by Ernest Ferancillon , erectied a factory in 1866 to conduct all of the operations of watch finishing in one plant as opposed to the traditional method of passing the movement f…
Help ID this Longines - NAWCC Forums Hi, This Lingones automatic runs I don't know anything about it Any wrist sleuths out there? I'm wanting to wait to see what info I get before removing the back, if its necessary Thanks Scott
Longines L678 Movement - NAWCC Forums The Longines L678 is based on the Valjoux 7751, this based on info from the Longines com web page There is a down loadable pdf catalog of Longines mechanical movements there Longines, a Swatch owned watch company, has modified to its specifications the Valjoux 7751, made by a Swatch owned movement maker and renamed it the L678 The bottom line is that the movement in your watch and the
Chronometry: - Longines Deck Watch | NAWCC Forums I have in for service a Longines Deck Watch Chronometer that basically is a robust pocket watch movement mounted in a gimballed frame with double wood case in the manner of a ship's chronometer The movement is approximately 36 hour run time and is stem-wind lever set; you have to unscrew the
Longines Private Label Watches - NAWCC Forums Longines, seemingly more than most watch companies, provided contract watches, also known as a private label watch, furnishing a large number of private label watches to dealers in the U S and Canada Below is a table of private label Longines watches started with information contained in a
Longines for US market caliber 21. 29 - NAWCC Forums Inside it has a caliber made by Longines, a 21 29 [The same caliber was delivered to romanian railway (C F R -Căile Ferate Române)But those were equiped with power reserve The same movements with power reserve were used by U S navy pocket watches Below I'll post also some photos of one of Longines of mine made for CFR
Longines pocket watch. . . . HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED The movement is definitely Longines and that is a well-reputed Swiss company I was querying the case Very many Longines watches were sold in Longines Swiss-made cases which had the distinctive Longines winged logo on them as shown below:
movement removal | NAWCC Forums A 1260 Longines wrench is a device to compress the crystal enough to remove it from the case A crystal lift is usually used now The correct method is to remove the crystal, then rotate the crown until the split stem is in position so you can tilt the movement to separate the stem and remove the movement from the case
Longines models and serial numbers - NAWCC Forums I had a Longines "Olympian" with Caliber 6652 movement marked with a serial number in the 51 million range I emailed Beatrice Donze, museum curator, at Longines and got a very interesting explanation The movement was produced in 1973 and sent to Longines-Wittnauer, who apparently marked it Olympian, ostensibly as a special edition for either the 1972 or 1976 Olympics With the exception of