Longines 13ZN
Hi Everyone who are well versed with Longines 13ZN, I'm thinking of getting this piece but I would like to know if anyone here has any issue with the dial or the hands. Most 13ZN I saw come with leaf hands but these one are with Alpha hands. If you feel m...
May I ask how you tell
this is a redial? The dial feet for this piece is copper and the dial has a Stern star at the back.
Problem is ....
General rule is the foot NOT being copper is a redial, but just because the foot is copper, does NOT mean it's original. The biggest tells are the fonts for the subdials and for the logo. Also, longines did not use these hands on any reference 13zns (or 3...
That's a very interesting observation.
Another collector who owns a 13ZN-12 said to me that such hands are common as 13ZN comes in variety of hands. I think these Alpha hands are commonly seen in 30CH. I like that you mention the fonts, I should look into that. The watch comes with an extract ...
Not quite true
The alpha hands were used, but the shape of these does not match the alpha hands that Longines used (and seen on 30CHs only, I have never seen a single correct 13zn with these). And many sandwich dials were re finished, I have seen 10+ refinished sandwich...
That's very useful info !!!
Thank you for sharing this, I will keep these words closely in mind.
Redone dial!
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Can you educate me
how you tell? Thank you
