Longines has given its Weems Second-Setting Watch a new brilliance by dressing it in pink gold. A tribute to the American captain Philip van Horn Weems, who invented a wristwatch that could complement the plane’s on-board chronometers with a mechanism for synchronising watches to the closest second by using a radio time signal without moving the hands.
SPECIFICATIONS
CASE
Polished 18K pink gold, 47.50 mm
Sapphire crystal
Back with engraved, individually-numbered cover opening onto a sapphire crystal
DIAL
Lacquered white
Silvered opaline mobile central dial
Blued steel hands
MOVEMENT
Automatic, L699 / ETA A07 111 calibre, 24 rubies, 28,800 vib/h, 46-hour power reserve
FUNCTIONS
Hours, minutes and seconds
Mobile central dial for synchronising the second with the radio time signal
BRACELET/STRAP
Brown alligator with Charleston buckle and an extension piece