This Is The Longines Heritage Chronograph 1946 Replica Watch
The present collection offers monopusher pulsometers, off-set 1920's-style driver's chronos, mid-century two-registers, 2018 superb Avigation BigEye, which made our list of the greatest Chronographs under 10,000, and today the brand new (old) Chronograph 1946.
That year puts the initial piece, a handbook wind stainless chronograph, smack-bang in the center of what's broadly regarded as the golden chronilogical age of watch design with the most general look into its dial, it’s easy to understand why Longines selected the model for rebirth because of the sense of proportion, clean uncluttered layout, near monochrome colour pattern, heavily stylised Breguet numerals and subtly recessed sub-dials. It’s a wrist watch that appears just as sophisticated these days because it did halfway with the 20th.
Longines continues to be suitably supportive using the reissue, while you would hope, although small tweaks happen to be made. The hour hands continues to be altered, using the original ‘Modern’ style hands making method for a blued steel ‘feuille' or 'leaf’ hands to complement the moment hands. Ironically the ‘Modern’ hands was among the couple of aspects of the timepiece that offered to pin it for an era the option of leaf hands creates a far more timeless, and inevitably a little more anonymous design.Longines Heritage Chronograph 1946 replica watch
Less satisfying may be the motive for transposing the chronograph minutes register and running seconds sub-dial in their three and nine o’clock positions. The automated 28,800vph L895.5 chronograph movement comes thanks to ETA being an exclusive for that brand. However that doesn’t mean it had been designed particularly for that 1946 rather it’s a better A31.L21, a pairing from the ETA 2892 automatic calibre along with a Dubois-Depraz chronograph module, offering 54 hrs as opposed to the standard 48 hrs of power reserve. As a result, and apart from major reworking, the initial configuration was unobtainable.
We haven’t had our hands - or measurement callipers - around the original piece, that is displayed within the brand’s incredibly comprehensive museum in Saint Imier, but we all know it utilized Longines legendary 13ZN movement, the very first serially-created flyback chronograph. Considering that movement’s relatively large 29mm diameter, we are able to assume the timepiece was around the large size for that period, possibly 36-38mm. The brand new situation is 40mm, so likely little change there. The brand new watch is not a flyback, however a standard chronograph.
Probably the most common failings of heritage reissue watches all brands who dip their toes during these waters may be the ill-fitting size the organization emblem around the dial. Frequently the current (and absolutely immodest) requirement that brand logos show on the dial from sleep issues from the road is used to historic designs and, from the purely typographical perspective, it really doesn’t work. So full credit to Longines to get this aspect right every time within its Heritage collection.
The only real factor that’s missing so far as we’re concerned may be the original movement. Yes, Longines is really a different brand right now to the one which produced the integrated, by hand wound 13ZN flyback chronograph movement in 1936 (or its rattrapante and minute repeater housing pocket watches for instance) and recreating this type of movement means a end product having a cost tag that will likely baffle Longines' current customers, but we won’t stop hankering for just one.
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