Longines Weems Hour angle second setting prototype Aerochronometer 3585867 The Genesis Pair Vintage aviation unique

$1.50 for a Longines Icon: The Weems Prototype’s 1937 Service Call

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Hamilton, Waltham, Longines Aerochronometer prototype Weems second setting air navigation

Harold Bromley & Number 10

The Aerochronometer that Almost Crossed the Pacific Harold Bromley & Number 10, a near century-old ...

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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 ...

Glycine Airman SST flightbird Pumpkin 24hr AMPM dial

The stroke of midnight…the Glycine Pumpkin SST

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An Accurate Timepiece for the Air Navigation age

Whilst Santos-Dumont had flown with his famous Cartier watch in 1906, there was a limited ...

Harold Gatty Weems Wiley Post round the world

Harold Gatty – Round the World Navigator

After Howard Hughes’ world circling flight of 1938, he proclaimed to Harold Gatty, pioneer, ‘Greetings ...

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Philip Van Horn Weems – Grandfather of today’s GPS

While characters like Lindbergh, Douglas Corrigan and Richard E. Byrd were trailblazing the skies, pioneers ...

Amy Johnson: Queen of The Air

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

Weems Lindbergh hour- angle prototype unit of arc markings dial

Lindbergh had a special Weems!

Lindbergh had a special Weems! It almost sounds like a chicken or egg type scenario, ...

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