This watch is dedicated to Anne & Charles Lindbergh:
Following the success of his 1927 first non-stop solo flight across the North Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh (by then in great demand of his services) decided to explore new possible air-routes across the north. in 1933 he set off which his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The couple set off from New York on a trip of some 47,000 km that would take them to New Foundland, Greenland, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Portugal, the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde before returning to the USA via the Gambia, Brazil and Cuba. Lindbergh also took with him a Longines chronograph developed especially for this flight.
This watch features:
- Polished stainless steel case.
- Silvered dial with blued hands.
- Painted classic style Arabic Numeral hour markers.
- Painted small Arabic Numeral 5 minute indicators, seconds indexes & fraction of seconds track.
- White enamel Tachymeter scale on the outer diameter of the dial, with painted indexes & Arabic numeral markings.
- 2-Register Chronograph:
- Large central hand for the seconds counter.
- 30 minute counter sub-dial located at the 3 o'clock position.
- Small regular seconds hand sub-dial located at the 9 o'clock position.
- Hinged flip-open case back opens to a transparent case back. Engraved in script on the inside of the case back is
- Longines Lindbergh's Atlantic Voyage Watch.
- No. xxx
- Designed for Mrs & Mr Chs. A. Lindbergh's Flight in 1933
- in automatic version Stainless Steel Water-resistant Swiss made
- Longines caliber L705, beats at 28,800 vph & has an approximate power reserve of 46 hours.
