Longines

[neilbauer]

Does anyone have any info on this or what it might be worth?

[DS3R]

manual wind with seconds wheel, no box/papers/history I guess?

possibly 40's to late 50's without the wings logo (the Longines website may tell you when they adpoted it, i think it was late 50's but may not have been a feature on all their watches until later), probably worth £100-150 if you can find someone to whom it is meaningful/ worth restoring, either as part of a collection or as a birth watch.

Go find an independent who can take the back off, there may be date and/ or service marks in the caseback itself.

vaguely similar head here has been for sale for a v long time

http://www.chrono24.com/en/longines/30l--id2039256...

This dealer is exceptionally optimistic given the condition, it too has been on there a v long time, it would have to mean a lot to someone to part with 500 bucks for it

http://www.chrono24.com/en/longines/mens-manual-17...

Edited by DS3R on Wednesday 20th June 07:47

[neilbauer]

Thankyou very much. It's my mums partners, it was his dads and thinks he would have had it when he was a boy which would date it late 18th early 19th. I thought that was a bit old!

[phumy]

neilbauer said:

Thankyou very much. It's my mums partners, it was his dads and thinks he would have had it when he was a boy which would date it late 18th early 19th. I thought that was a bit old!

As we are in the 21st Century now i think 300 years for someone who was boy potentially three hundred years ago is a bit hopeful

[neilbauer]

Yes I think what I meant was late 19th early 20th