A battle of daily wearers with roots in the 1960s. Vote here: https://www.fratellowatches.com/sunday-morning-showdown-longines-ultra-chron-classic-vs-king-seiko-sje089/

I’ve been hoping to see this (37mm iteration) in the flesh ever since I saw the press release on Fratello last month ( https://www.fratellowatches.com/hands-on-with-the-new-longines-ultra-chron-classic-honoring-the-original-high-beat-ultra-chron-from-1967

The 1967 High-Frequency Watch Faithfully Re-Created Quite nice:

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Tudor Big Block on Distressed leather Omega Seamaster cal 321 Rolex Speedking 4220 ca. 1942 Longines Ultra-Chron diver

Seiko was the 1st in Japan to introduce a 5Hz (36,000bph) movement, labeling it the 61GS. The movement 1st appeared in Grand Seiko in 1968, a year after Longines Ultra-Chron movement and a year before Zenith’s El Primero. There weren’t tons of GS’s made w

I prefer photos of watches being worn as this imparts a certain ‘life’ to the timepiece. Static, posed images are fine to point out a design feature or show detail, but they are not the way I prefer to see watches. So here is a collection of some of my fa

Thanks Nico, that’s too kind. I know you have influenced many others, but if I can tug at your heart with the occasional Constellation or this Longines, I am very happy. I don’t have any great movement shots as the watch is a little difficult to open with

Thanks, BJ It’s my first Longines and there was an immediate affinity. It looks like the Longines Cal. 69XX family consisted of the following movements: Cal. 6902: no second Cal. 6912: no second, date Cal. 6922: sub second Cal. 6942: sweep second Ca

Hi Ogygia, You are correct that a stable high energy, high torque power supply is required for these fast-beat movements. The Cal. 43X series in the Ultra-Chron had a single barrel with a longer and thicker mainspring. Longines did produce twin-barrel wat