Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Longines Weems. Air Soldier 863 (L) and 832 (R)

The Imperial Japanese Navy ‘Air Soldier’ Weems

The “King of Timepieces in the East,” [1]was Kintaro Hattori, who began importing Swiss and ...

Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition Weems

Byrd’s Longines Weems speaks of a time when explorers, aviators and aviatrix relied upon them ...

Sidereal or Star time….twinkle, twinkle…

Lindbergh stated, “I consider celestial navigation necessary to future aviation”.[1] The “Lindbergh Boom”[2] that followed ...

The Ultimate Stars – Sidereal timepieces

Weems stated, “It is perhaps fortunate that timepieces were developed before radio, or else extremely ...

Amy Johnson’s Weems SOARS again.

Amy Johnson’s Weems watch SOARS again at a recent Sotheby’s auction selling for 88,200 pounds. ...

Amy Johnson: Queen of the Air

Amy Johnson joins the likes of Amelia Earhart in her feats of aviation and her ...