Longines
Country | |
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City | Saint-Imier |
Era | e.1832 |
Description
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1832
- Saint-Imier watchmakers established by Auguste Agassiz.
1846
- Agassiz heads the company and opens the market to the United States to great success.
1852
- Ernest Francillon joins the firm eventually taking it over.
1867
- Es Longines the Longines factory opens.
- Produces the first movement, 20A.
- Wins a award at the Universal Exhibition, Paris.
1876
- Jacques David attends the Universal Exhibition in Philadelphia and returns to inspire the industrialization of Swiss watchmaking.
- Longines pioneers mechanized production.
1878
- By means of its newly mechanized production, Longines produces a simple chronograph, the 20H.
1881
- Longines chronographs produced for Americans are purchased by horse racing aficionados.
1886
- Longines is supplying the majority of New York Sports officials.
1888
- Produces a certified chronometer, the 21.59 calibre.
1889
- Logo is registered.
1893
- Logo registered with the United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property (forerunner of WIPO).
1899
- Longines equips Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoie for his Artic expedition.
1900
- GranPrix at the Universal Exhibition, Paris for La Renommée pocket watch.
1913
- First calibre for a wristwatch.
1916
- Begins development of shaped movements for wristwatches.
1919
- Longines begin development of navigation instruments for aviators.
1927
- Weems Second-Setting Watch for Navigation.
1931
- Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch to be used with a sextant and nautical almanac.
1936
- 13ZN calibre wristwatch patented.
1945
- Longines patents its first self-winding movement, the 22A.
1954
- Longines first quartz clock.
- Used with a 16mm camera to record race finishes for officials.
1969
- First cybernetic quarts calibre – Ultra-Quartz.
1972
- Longines LCD Watch.
- Currently in operation with the same Maker’s Mark.