Rare Pristine 1914 LONGINES Wrist Watch.
 
Offered here is a rare wrist watch large dress timepiece that dates circa 1914. It was made by the “LONGINESâ€.
MODEL NAME: WRISTWATCH CONVERTED FROM POCKET WATCH.
This gorgeous, men’s timepiece features a elegant original PORCELAIN dial, featuring a black Emanel Roman hours numeration and a seconds dial at the 6 with 60 second outer chapter and “sweep†seconds hand. Signed LONGINES – below the 12. The dial is original pristine porcelain and in very good condition (no cracks, no chips, no restoration). Hands – original Blue steel hands. Glass – new dome plastic glass.
The pristine case is in excellent-very good condition (with only some small scratches). Have two hinged back lids.
Peeking inside I find that the case lid is stamped with the most famous markingLongines Mark and case reference number #3209828. This serial Number repeat on the inner case lid and dates this watch to 1914 as per published production numbers.
This beautiful wristwatch has the original pristine movement in an excellent status which was very well saved, considering age of this watch. Signed “Longines”.
Mechanism has been recently serviced to ensure it winds and sets smoothly while keeping great, accurate time.
This is a “NAIL SET†watch so you don’t pull the crown out to set the time. Instead, you press the little button below the crown IN and then move the crown to set the hands, releasing the button once you’re finished. It’s easy, so don’t worry about getting the hang of it!
It is comes with a new 22mm genuine leather strap with metal buckle.
BRAND/MAKE: LONGINES.
Signed by “Longines” on the dial, case and movement.
This watch is measures:
40mm – diameter of dial,
50mm  – case wide,
54mm      – case wide with crown,
60mm   - case long from lug to lug,
22mm   – band size,
11mm    – thickness;
is in perfect working order and in excellent-very good cosmetical condition.
ABOUT WATCH: EXCELLENT working, rare, antique and collectible.
Getting such thing you do good capital investment. Every year the price for them will increase only!
This thing also can be a good gift or a personal worthy subject for you.
A nice addition to your antique Wrist Watch.
Thank you for bidding and good luck! See my other auctions.
Recommendations for the owner of antiquarian watches:
All Antique watches are mechanical. Many repairs will not be cheap, as most likely they will require replacement of non-standard parts (unlike most late model watches).
– Antique watches should not be beaten or dropped – because repairs may be expensive.
– Antique watches are generally NOT waterproof. This is because waterproofing was not in general production until the middle of the 20th century for most watches. Therefore you should protect your antique watch from exposure to moisture.
– If your watch becomes wet it should be dried off quickly. Carefully open all covers and use a hair drier to blow dry the movement, dial, covers, crown. This will reduce the amount of rust.
– If your watch becomes wet with any kind of salt water you should immediately immerse or spray your watch with fresh (no-salt) water to remove all the salt from the works before drying the watch completely. Any salt left in the watch will combine with moisture in the air to rust metal components of the movement, case etc.
– Winding any mechanical watch tight may break the mainspring. If you can avoid it do not wind the watch hard.
– When adjusting the hands of your watch, move them in a clockwise direction only. Counter-clockwise adjustments may damage the movement.
– If you must adjust counter-clockwise make it for small adjustments only (i.e. for minutes, NOT hours).
– Be careful and gentle when adjusting the movement speed (faster or slower). Don’t make sharp movements, and don’t touch other components in the movement especially the pendulum mechanism.
– Every 2-3 years it is necessary to service and oil vintage watches.
– IF the watch is dirty – allow the watch to run down, don’t wind it again until you have it serviced by a qualified watch repair expert. Dust will absorb and remove important lubricants and cause the movement pieces to wear down.
– To clean the case, dial and crystal you should use a cloth that does NOT leave fibers as these may get caught up in the movement. Check with your Watch repair expert to get an appropriate cloth.
– Keep your antiques watch away from magnets. Strong magnetic fields may affect the accuracy of your watch since some vintage watches were made with iron based components in the movement.
– Most Cases and Covers are fine components and will not handle abuse well. The watch should not be shaken, beaten, or stressed.
– Antique watches generally experience an error of up to 5-7 minutes a day. Any accuracy of +- 5 minutes is very good.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE BIDDING:
Vintage watches are very delicate and I package to the highest degree to prevent damage.
High altitude flights can be hard on watches due to extreme temperature changes. This can cause the oil viscosity to decrease (gum up) and prevent a watch from ticking (the balance moving freely etc.). It may need to be oiled when it arrives regardless of its recent servicing (if applicable). Although this is only a very slight possibility it can occasionally happen.
Please bear in mind that you are buying a used watch and it will require service at some point in time.
Return policy:
I guarantee you complete satisfaction with all my high quality products. If you receive an item you did not order or if an item you ordered is received damaged or defective, I will refund you the price you paid for it or replace it with identical one.
If you’re not satisfied with your purchase, contact me, and it will be a pleasure to discuss with you to resolve the situation.
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internationally by registerred air mail.
Delivery takes as a usual 10-14 working days. (Some times it takes little more)
Professionally carefully packages.
A Short Longines History:
1832 Auguste Agassiz joins the Comptoir Raiguel Jeune through its main creditor, the Fornachon Bank in Neuchatel.
1867 Ernest Francillon, Agassiz’s nephew, builds the first premises at Longines, a site near Saint-Imier meaning “Long Meadows.” Watches produced here are signed with the Longines brand-name. Francillon introduces new manufacturing methods, involving mechanical processes. Forty people, who would once have assembled parts supplied by the watch producers or the watch-industry bosses, now work in the factory.
1889 The Longines trademark, the “Winged Hourglass”, is registered at the Intellectual Property Office in Bern.
1900 The Longines Cal. 18SP/18″‘/19CH is awarded the Grand Prix at the Paris Universal Exhibition.
1961 The first Swiss electro-mechanical watch presented at the Basel Fair (Longines Cal. 400)
1969 For the first time, a watch factory publicly presents a quartz cybermetric wristwatch. The Longines ultra-quartz is entirely created by its own research teams. Creation of the Longines Telesprint – an electronic stop-watch, with a luminous digital display regulated by a quartz oscillator. Longines repeats its successes of 1964 and 1965 to win the jewelery Oscar – the Diamonds international Award-for the third time.
1971 A revolution in timekeeping with the development of the Video-Longines: electronic image recording with incorporated timing at 100 images a second. Longines thus joins the ASUAG group. Longines is the first to broadcast time live on TV at the St.Moritz World Cup skiing.
1972 The prototype Longines LCD (liquid-crystal display), which can permanently display the hours, minutes, seconds and date, is presented at the Basel Fair. The Longines concept is jointly developed with Ebauches S.A. and Texas Instruments Inc. Longines times the 20th Olympic Games in Munich.
1975 Longines wins another Baden-Baden Golden Rose award. Longines personalizes the responsibility of its timing with its signature on the screen. “Longines Timing” appears for the first time at the World Cup ski finals at Val Gardena.
1976 Timing of the 21st Olympics at Montreal, and the 12th winter Olympics at Innsbruck, as Swiss Timing.
1979 Longines presents its Golden Leaf collection – gold watches with an overall height of 1.98mm developed with Ebauches S.A. and ETA of Grenchen.
1982 Longines marks the 150th anniversary of the Comptoir Agassiz with a collection of ultra-thin gold watches (3mm overall and water-resistant).
1988 Timekeeper, (as Swiss Timing) at the 15th winter Olympics, Calgary and the 24th Seoul Olympics.
1989 Longines celebrates the 100th anniversary of the “Winged Hourglass” as a registered 1832 trademark.
1992 The 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus ‘historic landfall is commemorated in the 1492 Cristobal C. collection of solar-compass watches. The first Conquest Futurity with perpetual calendar is presented. For its 125th anniversary, Longines reissues a perpetual calendar watch and reissues a watch that Ernest Francillon first produced in 1867 – a keyless hunting-cased pocket-watch. Timing at the 16th winter Olympics in Albertville.
1998 Launch of the Longines DolceVita collection for women and men.
2000 During a remarkable event in Munich, Germany, in the presence of three Longines
ambassadors of elegance, the Longines DolceVita is launched. Longines is official partner of the Sydney 2000 Olympic games.
2001 Never modified, continually used, constantly updated, the world’s oldest registered brand name in watch making – Longines, with its “Winged hourglass” logo – enters the third millennium with enthusiasm and elegance…
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