Longines Grande Vitesse Auto Chrono

Description:

LONGINES GRANDE VITESSE L3.636.4
AUTOMATIC CHRONOGRAPH 42 MM

AS SHOWN IN THE PICTURES THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PRE-LOVED LONGINES GRANDE VITESSE CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC AND IS IN GREAT CONDITION WITH THE GLASS BEING IN MINT CONDITION, COMES COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL LONGINES WATCH BOX, OUTER BOX AND LONGINES CARD


2012 MODEL: Grande Vitesse Cronograph automatic

REFERENCE: L3.636.4

SERIAL No: 34689905

CASE: 42 mm. Stainless steel - 'In Great Condition'

STRAP SIZE: 7.5" Inner diameter with all end links as shown in pictures

MOVEMENT: Automatic Chronograph with date

CLASP: Longines push release

CRYSTAL: Sapphire. Shock resistant - 'In Mint Condition'

Longines is a doyen regarding the whole Swiss clock industry. The company has already been a watch shop since 1832. The watch factory, though, was established in 1866 by Ernest Francillon, a Swiss clockmaker. In 1867, it became one of the first Swiss watchmaking manufactories, winning the first gold medal for a pocketwatch at the wold exposition that very same year. This success seemed to appeal to firm owner Ernest Francillon because till 1926 Longines was able to take home a total of nine similiar prizes.

In 1952, Longines became the official timekeeper for the Olympic Games and has since then been a part of every summer and winter Olympics. The probably best known Longines watch wearer is Charles Lindbergh, who crossed the Atlantic ocean succesfully and safely with a Longines pilot's watch strapped around his thigh. Just like Humphrey Borgart in the Fifties, who looked with a melancholic stare into the camera while wearing a tonneau-shaped yellow gold Longines on his wrist.