Pressing market demand with respect to both technology
and styling drove watchmakers at Longines
to design caliber L21.59. After the first
Longines watch’s 1867 bronze medal,
in 1900 Longines caliber 21.59 won a Grand
Prix at the Universal Exhibition in Paris
with a one-of-a-kind creation called La Renommée,
in 18K gold.
The
first wristwatches
When watches gradually migrated from waistcoat
to wrist, Longines was in 1905 the first to
turn out wristwatches by largely mechanical
means. This innovation marked the start of
a complete reorganization of the Longines’ factory
working and production methods during the 1920s
and 1930s.
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