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The Rarest Batch of Watches – where’s my Zipper?

If you’re reading this, it is highly likely that you too got bitten by the ...

My Agent did what……Lindbergh’s steel Longines 13.33Z.

Lindbergh’s steel 13.33Z would qualify as an uber rare catch for many a collector, especially ...

The Italian job remade grand feu enamel versus original Fluckiger dial

“The Italian Job” REMADE enamel dials

The construction of Grand Feu enamel dials is a complex, time consuming and expensive process. ...

Longines Weems second setting pieces 1930 - unique 5 different fonts

A Legendary Navigating Star – Lt. Harry P. McLean Connor

Today’s Instagram wrist shot era may well have been started by a legendary navigating star ...

Longines Weems second setting hour-angle prototype - a world first

The World’s First Hour-angle wristwatch

President Coolidge cabled Lindbergh noting, “The first flight of a lone aviator across the Atlantic ...

Lindbergh hour angle patent prototype drawings

The World’s first production Hour–angle timepiece

Longines experienced a multiple decade zenith in the first half of the twentieth century and ...

Sky to Space, Lindbergh, Goddard, NASA rocket technology

From Sky to Space – The Moon Man & his Mate

“Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes ...

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Lindbergh’s Elusive Special Flight Calculator…

Albert Wittnauer agreed to stock a minimum of 17,000 Longines watches in America by 1879[1] ...

Bureau of Aeronautics Weems, Rear Admiral Moffat, Longines. Bu.Aero

BU. AERO Weems – historical DNA of the U.S Navy

Rear Admiral Moffett was one of the founding fathers of the modern U.S. Navy, and ...

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