Hi, I have a Longines le Grande Classique quartz 37mm MOP with diamond marker, ref L47662877, which I have recently bought. It gives perfect time, but the minute hand strangely jumps every 24s. I expected it to be a more round number. Since this is a d…

Dear fellow collectors,

it is my pleasure to share with you my latest catch. It is not easy to dig down below the surface of the very little known and publicly accessibl facts and learn more about hard to get early "calatrava" Longines equip…

I have in the past managed to find some decent quality NOS vintage military/tool watch style straps, always been fixed bars style, but haven’t had much luck lately.

Lately, been picking up some old wallets and clutch bags for the ostrich and croc with…

This is considered one of the ultra rare Weems. I have an ugly watch, but it is all original , unpolished and comes from an executive at NAWCC. I had no idea what it was until a dealer kept trying to sell it to me saying as a friend you need to buy thi…

Who wants to try to convince me I need a vintage or modern Longines in my collection?

And more importantly who can actually accomplish it? =D

Hi all,

Not sure if this is the correct place to post so please advise me otherwise if needed and apologies if so.

So I’m restoring a Longines Ref. 4915 (37 mm) from the 1940s with a 12.68Z movement.
The original hands were damaged by a previous watc…

Here is a honey single button stop watch about 1935.

In early 2016, I began to collect data on Longines' Marine Nationale watches. My primary objective was to make sense of the different dial types that I had observed. With an admittedly small sample size, a pattern emerged. Three distinct dial desi…

Am allowed to plug my (non-commercial) blog post here?
https://www.moonagewatches.com/post/the-longines-ultra-chron-jumbo-models-part-1-the-great-sleepers