Longines jumbo in stainless steel with Calatrava style from 1950 - Serviced

Longines jumbo in stainless steel with Calatrava style from 1950 - Serviced

Longines jumbo with beautiful light gray dial with gold Arabic numerals and batons for hours. The watch has a sub dial at 6 o’clock for the seconds. The hands are in gold with baton shape. It is a stainless-steel back case with engraved inside “EFC - Longines” 4914 12 and 347. It is a manual wind movement with a caliber 1268Z and 17 jewels. It is numbered 8170189 and date the watch to 1950. The watch comes with a black leather band and steel buckle. The width between the lugs is 18mm.

History

Longines was born August 14, 1832 by a young man called Auguste Agassiz who became partner at “Comptoir Raiguel Jeune”, watch dealership in the Jura. After putting watches together mostly by watchmakers living in small farms, the comptoir sell them. The Co. becomes very prosperous. In 1847, the company changes the name for “Comptoir Agassiz & Co.” En 1866, the Co. buys a land called “Les Longines” to build production plant. One year later, the first watches “E. Francillon, Longines, Suisse” are introduced to the universal exhibition in Paris. In 1880, the company registered its patent as “Longines” and the famous trademark “the winged hourglass”. Then came the famous calibers, the 13.33Z, the 13ZN or the 30CH in 1947. The most memorable moment was the association with Charles A. Lindbergh who had flown his Spirit of Saint Louis across the Atlantic on May 27, 1927. Hour angle watch that made navigation easier for many a pilot on trans-oceanic flights was available from 1932. Longines was also the pioneer of electronic timekeeping.

Technical details

Manual wind movement with caliber 1268Z with 17 jewels, 18,000 bph and 41 hours of power reserve. The movement has the numbers 8170189 (1950).

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 37mm


Length including lugs: 45mm