In 1832, Auguste Agassiz entered the world of watchmaking by establishing a partnership with a watchmaking comptoir (the Swiss name for a watch production workshop and dealership) in Saint-Imier. Shortly thereafter, he took control of the enterprise and renamed it “
The company began producing chronograph replica watches in 1879 and registered its "Winged Hourglass" trademark in May of 1890. In 1912, it produced the first automatic timekeeping device.
Longines went on to develop aviator watches and cockpit instruments. Its strong connection with early aviation provided first-class flight instruments for airplanes from the 1920s onward. It was Longines who timed the 1927 trans-Atlantic crossing of Charles Lindbergh in the 'Spirit of St Louis'. Longines equipment was also used on the plane "The City of New York" which was piloted by Collyer and Mears when they broke an around the world record in 1928.
Leading the field as timekeepers to the world of sports, Longines developed precision stop watches for athletes. The brand became part of the Olympic Games and ensured that athletes' performances were accurately recorded. From that day Longines has long been associated with time-keeping at major sporting events.
Longines was also the first company in the world to enable on screen time display during live televised events; this being in 1970 during a World Cup downhill skiing race in
Longines has been at the forefront of many wristwatch innovations. In 1960 it developed the world's thinnest electromagnetic watch measuring an amazing 0.98mm in depth. In 1969 they developed the Ultra-Quartz, the world's first cybernetic, electronic quartz watch. And in 1972 Longines was the first watch manufacturer in the world to bring out a watch that used a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).
In 1979, Longines collaborated with other watch brands to develop the "Feuille d'Or", the world's thinnest quartz watch at the time. Then in 1984 Longines released the famous 'Conquest VHP' (Very High Precision). This was a watch that broke a number of accuracy records at the time having a time variance of only 12 seconds per year.
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