Credits: Article and images by Suan Futt Yeo @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/longines-master-collection-190th-anniversary/
Longines has much to celebrate, not merely for the distinction of being among the oldest watch companies in continuous operation, but also for the most impressive trail of innovations that it has blazed through its 190-year history. From pioneering mechanized watch production for volume and quality consistency in 1867, Longines went on to produce the world’s first dual time zone pocket watch in 1908, followed by the first dual time zone wristwatch in 1925. It has also proven to be relentless in pushing the envelope on timekeeping precision, creating the world’s first high-frequency wrist chronometer in 1959 that clocked 36,000 beats an hour (5Hz), and winning the top two prizes for accuracy at the Neuchâtel Observatory in 1961. And Longines’s track record in sports timekeeping can only be characterized as stellar: it created the world’s first high-frequency stopwatch with a 5Hz movement that allowed it to take readings to an accuracy of a tenth of a second; this was followed just two years later in 1916 with a stopwatch that ran at 360,000 beats an hour (50Hz), giving it accuracy to a hundredth of a second. Today, the company’s timekeeping systems which Longines has been improving on since debuting its electromechanical system in 1912, boasts accuracy to a millionth of a second.
Credits: Article and images by Suan Futt Yeo @ Revolution Watch Magazine. See the original article here - https://revolutionwatch.com/longines-master-collection-190th-anniversary/