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Up for your consideration is a Vintage, 1961, Longines Admiral 1200, Automatic, 10K gold filled, presentation watch. (comes with a new brown leather band and period correct watch presentation box.) It features a beautiful brushed silver dial with applied gold \"Calatrava-style\" Arabic and baton hour markers. The case itself is made of 10K gold-filled metal. It has its original crown showing the Longines winged hourglass logo which I tried to show in the photos. The watch does run when wound but it will stop and go.Keep in mind that vintage automatic watches require specialized care. If the watch has been sitting in a drawer for decades, the original oils inside have likely dried up. I don\'t know the watch\'s history of service. It is most likely in need ofservice and cleaning for it to run at its full potential. There is a personal engraving on the back casePresented to E.L. Stevens, Clayton Mfg. Co., 25 Years Service, October 28, 1961\"During the mid-20th century, high-end Swiss watches like this Longines were the gold standard for prestigious corporate retirement and service awards. This historical inscription ties your piece to a precise day in autumn of 1961!
The watch will also come with a period correct Longines watch box.The green leatherette exterior with gold filigree tooling, paired with a plush green velvet watch bed, perfectly mirrors the exact aesthetic packaging Longines distributed to Authorized Dealers (ADs) around 1960–1962.Because vintage watch companies historically shipped their watches to jewelers in bulk slots, the jeweler or corporate purchaser would pull a generic, era-appropriate box from behind the counter at the exact moment of sale.
The watch is fitted with a new brown leather band.
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