Horological Meandering

Longines for its 180th Anniversary. Automatic, 54-hours power reserve, blued column wheel, vintage lugs and wonderful blued hands and RED 12 or XII ;-)). 2 versions :with Arabic or Roman indexes: What is your choice? here is some photos: Arabic first: blu...  

Absolute No Go for me. Best, Nicolas

I am not so surprised by your "NO GO for me" dear Nicolas. Thank you for sharing your advice. I find some charm on this model: BLUE, WHITE, RED , very frenchy these days, in the spirit to support our football (soccer) team. I did not succeed to completely...  

I would prefer roman numerals on the other lugs personally. What is the deal with the red at the 12 o'clock? I really like it and cant help but think of the AL&S version for their anniversary. Is there some tradition for this? Cant go wrong with either ju... 

... since they reproduce more faithfully the style of a WW I vintage pocket watch that has been modified to be worn on the wrist. I have a genetical handicap that forces me to contradict Nicolas as soon as a date display is involved. If this were not the ... 

A date is sometime useful. And for me, today, I prefer: - an automatic DATOgraph for a daily use - or a manual CHRONOgraph for the pleasure to look at the movement. Best regards, Patrickh

I think that you know that Longines is not an independant brand... Fx

Any Expert's comments on these 2 steel models? Best wishes, Patrickh

Subjective ones you got already, the only other comments could deal with the movement, or the execution of the watch. Marcus

is welcomed. I am a newbie for this brand. Thanks for any information. Patrickh

Fx

Thanks FX. ++++ Patrickh

Origin of the cal. L788 movement is the famous ETA/Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement. A rather recent variant of this is the cal. 7753, which features the symmetrical, more attractive "tri-compax" subdial layout (9-3-6). In order to relocate the counters,... 

on the History of this (these) movement (s). It is really interesting and I appreciate a lot to be on this wonderful site, managed by Excellent Experts. A site of PASSIONATE discussions. Best wishes, Patrickh

What has become of ye... We should all pool our funds and buy Longines and simply reintroduce the great watches it once made... A full year of re editions, starting with modern versions of the great chronos... If I owned Longines.... !!!