Longines Watches

The Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon SA is a traditional Swiss watch manufacturer registered with the oldest watch brand in the world. The company goes back to a plant which was built in 1832 in the Swiss town of Saint-Imier, where today is the headquarters. In the company's museum can display the the company's history based on pocket watches and wristwatches, chronographs, chronometers and navigational instruments can be traced.

Auguste Agassiz opened in 1832 along with the watches dealers Henri Raiguel and Florian Morel in Saint-Imier a trade in manufacturing watches. Agassiz introduced the soon to be particularly durable known clocks "in the style of Saint-Imier" before at trade shows throughout Europe and was quick to establish a good reputation and high name recognition. 1 July 1862 before taking over his nephew Ernest Francillon the watch manufacturer. He purchased a 1866 piece of land outside of Saint-Imier to a place that was called There Longines. A factory was built in 1867 in a pocket with the drawing: "E. was Francillon, Longines, Suisse made. To protect against counterfeiting, the name "Longines" and then on 27 May 1889 at the Swiss Federal Office for Intellectual Property registered. By registering with the International Intellectual Property Office in March 1893 became the oldest registered Longines watch brand in the world.


Watch Presence Longines
After Francillon death in 1900 1903 were the first mechanical attachments ladies watches. Two years later produced the first mechanically produced Longines men's wristwatch, which gradually supplanted the pocket. In the following years, dedicated the company specializing in sports timing and supported scientific expeditions. Sun Longines was, for example, the timing of the historic Atlantic crossing by the American aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927, responsible. Lindbergh then advised the watch manufacturers due to its experience with the problem of rapid positioning in the development of a special watch, which should allow the determination of longitude during a flight quickly and easily. This clock is referred to as the "Hour Angle" because the most important part in determining longitude, the hour angle of Greenwich, can be read directly from the Clock. It was published in 1932 under the name "Lindbergh" on the market.
In 1945 the first Longines watch came with an automatic lift to the market in 1952, the company was official timekeeper of the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo. 1960 a very thin electromagnetic plant was developed in 1967 brought out by the model "Ultra-Chron" a very precise automatic wristwatch with 36,000 vibrations per hour and 1969, a particularly accurate time quartz clock with the name "Ultra-Quartz" presents. With the advent of quartz watches in bulk got the company in the early 1980s the number of watch manufacturers in financial difficulties and was integrated into the SMH Group, which today than Swatch Group, with numerous brands like Swatch, Breguet, Omega, Blancpain, Longines a large Swiss watch manufacturers.