Vintage
Longines Rectangular-Shaped Art-Deco Watch (1936) 3648
Collector's Corner
Information & Conditions
Type of watch
Rectangular Art-Deco stainless steel wristwatch.
Serial No
5'428’175
Condition
Overall excellent, attractive condition, original dial
Serviced and revised by Longines Heritage workshop.Date of production
1936
Date of sale
18 February 1937 to the company Bessire, Belgium
Documents
Certificate of authenticity by Longines
Case
Dimension
19.50 x 29.00 mm
Case message
Stainless steel, hesalite glass
Material
Stainless steel
Dial & Hands
Dial
White two-tone dial with Arabic numerals at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 o’clock and minutes track. Subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock.
Hands
Hour and minute hands in the form of a leaf. Second hand at 6 o’clock
Dial color
White
Movement & Functions
Movement Type
Mechanical
Caliber
25.17
Functions
Indication of hours, minutes and seconds
Movement
Longines mechanical manually wound movement, caliber 25.17. This 26.00 x 17.80 mm rectangular caliber features 17 jewels and is beating at a frequency of 18’000 vibrations per hour
Strap
Material
Leather strap
Bracelet/Strap
15mm width
What makes this timepiece exceptional
As early as in the beginning of the 1910s Longines started to manufacture wristwatches with cases in a rectangular shape. Not only the cases were of a distnict rectangular design, but the in-house built movements as well. Rectangular watches were especially fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s, when they filled whole pages in catalogues. The current Longines DolceVita collection is rooted in this heritage, illustrated here by a piece with its external railway minute circle.
One of the important historic models that was inspiring the contemporary Dolce-Vital-Collection of Longines. Timeless and elegant dial with a perfect balance of the geometric shapes. The shape of the rectangular case is echoed by the shape of the form movement, manufactured by Longines.
About restoration
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