Brand:
Longines
Model:
Vintage Pocket Chronograph
Year:
1900
Original Box:
Not Included
Original Papers:
Not Included
Warranty:
12 months
Overall Condition:
Very Good
Wear level Case:
Noticeable
Wear level Caseback:
Noticeable
Wear level Dial:
Barely visible
Wear level Crystal:
Noticeable
Wear level Bezel:
Noticeable
Movement Type:
Manual winding
Case Material:
Steel
Case Diameter:
50 mm
Bezel Material:
Steel
Crystal:
Plexiglass
Dial Color:
White
Dial Numerals:
Arabic Numerals
Functions:
Chronograph, Tachymeter, Small seconds, Tempered blue hands, Vintage
Longines was founded in 1832 and became one of the great names in the early chronograph. This is one of its monopusher pocket chronographs, worked by a single button so the sweep seconds can be started, stopped and returned to zero, over a white enamel dial with subsidiary registers and blued steel hands. The dial is signed Longines, Fab. Suisse.
What sets it apart are the scales around the edge, marked "calculé par 100 mètres" and "par 1000 mètres de distance." This is a telemeter: start the chronograph when you see an event and stop it when you hear it, and the hand reads off the distance, the old way of gauging how far away a storm, or a gun, really was. In a 50mm steel case, it is a proper instrument of its era.
The watch is delivered with all items shown in the photographs.