Longines Spirit Zulu Time: A True GMT, Vintage-Inspired Timepiece
The Spirit Zulu watch takes inspiration from aviation and the original Longines Dual Time Zone watch created in 1925. With a contemporary redesign and all-new features, it's set to become the new classic.
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The Longines Spirit collection was created to exalt the glory days of aviation, where intrepid flyboys embarked on legendary exploits in the skies. We first covered the collection on its debut in 2020 in issue #59, with time-only and chronograph models. The story is moving on nicely this year, with fresh complications and yet more daring explorers, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. They completed the world?s first non-stop flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
For their 41-hour trip across the Pacific Ocean, Longines furnished the American aviators with a special cockpit clock equipped with double hour and minute hands and two concentric 24-hour dials. This technique of indicating different time zones was first developed by the watchmaker for the Ottoman Empire (today Turkey) in 1908, and from the cockpit clock it was modified to fit onto the wrists of pilots who set out to cross time zones.
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Fast-forward to the present, it was only a matter of time before a GMT model took flight in the fledgling Spirit fleet. The new Spirit Zulu Time bears the same moniker as the first Longines dual time zone watch from 1925, which feat...
The post Longines Spirit Zulu Time: A True GMT, Vintage-Inspired Timepiece appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Longines
The Longines Spirit collection was created to exalt the glory days of aviation, where intrepid flyboys embarked on legendary exploits in the skies. We first covered the collection on its debut in 2020 in issue #59, with time-only and chronograph models. The story is moving on nicely this year, with fresh complications and yet more daring explorers, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. They completed the world?s first non-stop flight from Japan to the United States in 1931.
For their 41-hour trip across the Pacific Ocean, Longines furnished the American aviators with a special cockpit clock equipped with double hour and minute hands and two concentric 24-hour dials. This technique of indicating different time zones was first developed by the watchmaker for the Ottoman Empire (today Turkey) in 1908, and from the cockpit clock it was modified to fit onto the wrists of pilots who set out to cross time zones.
Image: Longines
Fast-forward to the present, it was only a matter of time before a GMT model took flight in the fledgling Spirit fleet. The new Spirit Zulu Time bears the same moniker as the first Longines dual time zone watch from 1925, which feat...
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