[barmy]

Just picked up a vintage Longines and I can't find much info about. Where does Longines locate the serial number? Any idea what the lever at the 6 o'clock position is used for? Any info about the watch would be helpful.

Thanks

Barry


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[Presa canary]

Ulack will be here shortly...

 

[ivan1998]

Welcome and what you got there is a Longines Lindbergh Hour Angle watch. In the mid-1930s, the Longines-Wittnauer watch company marketed a line of watches designed in collaboration with Charles Lindbergh and P. V. H. Weems. The Hour Angle Watch sped computations for determining celestial lines of position. Its bezel and dial allowed navigators to read off the hour angle of a celestial object at Greenwich, eliminating a simple but troublesome calculation.

 

[barmy]

Any idea why mine has a lever that locks the outer bezel at the 6 o'clock? All the others I've seen on the internet don't have that lever.

 

[ivan1998]

Any idea why mine has a lever that locks the outer bezel at the 6 o'clock? All the others I've seen on the internet don't have that lever.

Don't know but take it to a trusted I mean a Trusted watchmaker. And and see what you what u got. Check ur PM .

 

[CometHunter]

Oh, you just have to look a little harder, that's all. I googled LINDBERG WATCH BEZEL LOCK and came up with this

 

[NicholasPoole]

What is the function of the locking bezel?

 

[CometHunter]

The markings on the bezel were for Lindberg's navigational computations. While he was doing this it was critical that the bezel not move by accident.

 

[Parshooter]

The markings on the bezel were for Lindberg's navigational computations. While he was doing this it was critical that the bezel not move by accident.

If Amilia Earhart had this, she might not have gotten lost.

 

[ulackfocus]

If Amilia Earhart had this, she might not have gotten lost.

She's not lost, she just went back to her home planet.