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My first watch!
A Longines Lindbergh 60th Anniversary edition, purchased with the money earned working in the foundry during the summer school holidays... back in 1988! And the great thing is that my parents have forbidden me to take it home from the shop until I graduated: "until you have graduated, you will not see him!".
I remember a long year of waiting!
Have you noticed the roman number "IV" instead of the extremely more common "IIII"? A nice detail... as for the rotatable internal disc (moving the crown in its middle position), useful for set the second hands, for example, with a radio signal. The quite strange bezel is free to be moved in both clock/counterclockwise and must be used in couple with an ephemeris table, but I don't remember how to use it: maybe one day I'll check it in the manual (for sure I can live easily without this indication!)
How I love the lack of "Automatic" writing on the dial!
Stainless steel, with a diameter of 38 mm. so a quite common size for that time. Inside beats what could be, if I remember correctly, the last caliber developed by Longines before being absorbed in the Swatch group galaxy: what I remember well is the fascination that thirty years ago it had with its openable case back and the visible movement, especially for a boy of eighteen!
Have you noticed the roman number "IV" instead of the extremely more common "IIII"? A nice detail... as for the rotatable internal disc (moving the crown in its middle position), useful for set the second hands, for example, with a radio signal. The quite strange bezel is free to be moved in both clock/counterclockwise and must be used in couple with an ephemeris table, but I don't remember how to use it: maybe one day I'll check it in the manual (for sure I can live easily without this indication!)
How I love the lack of "Automatic" writing on the dial!
Stainless steel, with a diameter of 38 mm. so a quite common size for that time. Inside beats what could be, if I remember correctly, the last caliber developed by Longines before being absorbed in the Swatch group galaxy: what I remember well is the fascination that thirty years ago it had with its openable case back and the visible movement, especially for a boy of eighteen!
Surely, it has a place that no other watch as valuable as it will ever take away: it is my first watch, and is still with me, thirty-one years later!
Have a great weekend, dear friends.
massi
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My first watch!
A Longines Lindbergh 60th Anniversary edition, purchased with the money earned working in the foundry during the summer school holidays... back in 1988! And the great thing is that my parents have forbidden me to take it home from the shop until I graduat...
Superb watch with a lot of history
I can imagine that you like the fact that the dial does not indicate that the watch is automatic. 'Automatic' is the most silly detail on a dial and for me often a decision not to buy the watch. I know it is automatic and do not need to be reminded every ...
Congrats Massi for this great watch, you were already a Purist in those early times.
Hard earned accomplishment are easily our favourite and we can well understand it from your writing. Wear it in great health for the next 31 years and more! Best, Max
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It has everything it need to be appreciated, and it's nice, after so many years, still appreciate the reasons that made me choose it...