The History Of Longines Watches

In 1832, Auguste Agassiz found a job with Counter Clock Raiguel Young. He started in St. Imier, Switzerland. In 1833 he took over the business when he and two of his associates opened a business. He was then called, the Comptoir Raiguel Jeue & Co. He started as what we call today a home based business. Employees worked with clocks in the house must be sold later in the workshop.

Somewhere between 1854 to 1866 Agassiz handed operation of the business to his nephew Ernest Francillon. The quality of the watches made at home was very low and Agassiz became aware of this. He decided it was time to open a factory.

Agassiz opened its first factory Longines watch. Thus, the Longines name was born. He moved his entire clock makers under this roof, and made all their supplies to them. This greatly improved the quality watches.

Over the years, the company began expanding its product range. Chronographs first came in 1879. Later came the manufacture of cockpit instruments and pilot watches. This product line, which played an important role in the genesis of their brand.

The corporate brand was invented a year later. It was registered on 19 Juli 1880th He had a winged hourglass, and is used today.

 

 
The year 1912 gave birth to another revelation of the Longines Company. In this year, they produced the first automatic maintains unity. It all started when Longines has been closely involved in gymnastics. It was Longines Watch Company, which became the official timekeeper of the Swiss Gymnastics meet. The first was the introduction of automatic timing system broken wire. Today, most major sporting events, use Longines as official timekeeper.

Longines has been associated with the International Federation of Aviation in 1919. Since then, Longines watches provided to both establish and certify a number of flight records. These include Charles Lindbergh crossing the North Atlantic. Amelia Earhart was a famous bearer of their brand.


The company also provides partnership with Ferrari of Italy. He has produced a new line of watches in 1982. By itself, this new line, had to announce a new partnership.

Two years later, in 1984, the Company introduced a new class of high-precision quartz clock. He had a temperature sensor to keep his timing stable. It could be set manually, and it is 10 times more accurate than a quartz watch on average.

A breakthrough in production was experienced in the 1970s. Progress has been made in carrying out their watches. The appearance has also begun to change. In 1973, Longines was the first dealer offering an LCD display.

In 1980, they produced a new series of watches. This series included a series of ultra-thin watches. Longines had already set a world record, with a clock that was made in 1960. This watch was only 0.98 mm thick.

In 2001, produces its 30 millionth Longines watch. In 2010, the brand is celebrating its 130th year logo, brand, and its 178th year in business. Longines is a widely recognized name, and is currently owned by the Swatch Group.