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History of Longines Watches

Longines was established in St. Imier in 1832 by Auguste Agassiz. Originally Longines outsourced watch production to the many craftsmen that existed in the region. In 1854 Longines set-up their own watch making factory to control quality of their production. Quality did improve and Longines was soon manufacturing watches with consistent accuracy that held them in high regard.

Longines developed a long tradition with sports, notably acting as official timekeeper at many summer and winter Olympics games as early as 1896. They began producing chronographs in 1879 but particularly came to the fore in sports timing when in 1912 they devised the world’s first electronic timing system for sports events. Longines was also the first company in the world to enable on screen time display for television during live televised events. This occurred in 1970 during a World Cup downhill skiing race in St. Moritz.

Longines also has a strong connection with early aviation. They provided first-class flight instruments for airplanes from the 1920s onward and were involved in a number of aviation firsts. Longines timed the 1927 trans-Atlantic crossing of Charles Lindbergh in the ‘Spirit of St Louis’. Longines equipment was also used on the plane “The City of New York” which was piloted by Collyer and Mears when they broke an around the world record in 1928.

In the 1920s Longines produced the Weems Navigation Watch, co-patented with Van Horn Weems. It was one of the first aviation watches, and was used by many pilots and navigators becoming one of the most reputed wrist instruments at the time.

Longines has been at the forefront of many wristwatch innovations. In 1960 they developed the world’s thinnest electromagnetic watch measuring an amazing 0.98mm in depth. In 1969 they developed the Ultra-Quartz, the world’s first cybernetic, electronic quartz watch. And in 1972 Longines was the first watch manufacturer in the world to bring out a watch that used a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD). In 1979, Longines collaborated with other watch brands to develop the "Feuille d’Or", the world’s thinnest quartz watch at the time. Then in 1984 Longines released the famous ‘Conquest VHP’ (Very High Precision). This was a watch that broke a number of accuracy records at the time having a time variance of only 12 seconds per year.

Longines released their first wristwatch in 1905 and by 2001 had sold over 30 million - a testimony to the excellence and longevity of the Longines brand.