AUTHENTIC WITTNAUER GENT WRISTWATCH

BRAND : AUTHENTIC VINTAGE WITTNAUER GENTS WRISTWATCH

MODEL : BY LONGINES/WITTNAUER 

MOVEMENT : Wittnauer inhouse movt  Cal. 11KAS 17 Jewels Automatic Movement

ORIGIN : Longines/Wittnauer Swiss
SERIAL NO. :  11KAS1500

CIRCA : 1960's

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL 

FUNCTION : HOUR, MINUTES, and SECONDS

DIAL: SHINNING SILVER COLOR DIAL with INNER BLUE ROMAN INDEXES
BEZEL: STAINLESS STEEL

MARKINGS : DIAL, MOVEMENT, CASEBACK
BAND : AFTERMARKET STAINLESS STEEL RICE BAND FIT 8" WRIST

LUGS SIZE: 18mm
BAND WIDTH: 18mm

LENS : ACCRYLIC CRYSTAL

MEASUREMENT : 35mm w/o CROWN X 38mm LUG TO LUG
WATER RESISTANT: NOT TESTED

CONDITION : EXCELLENT WORKING CONDITION 
PRICE:USD200 (NEGOTIABLE))
SOLD RM 

HISTORY OF LONGINES-WITTANAUER WATCHES

As soon as Ernest Francillon opened a small manufacturing plant, which started to produce the following year, the story of Longines started in 1866. Francillon, who was the grandson of Auguste Agassiz (a pioneer of Swiss horology whose name appears on wrist and pocket watches of high-quality), learned his trade at his grandfather's watch assembly shop, the "comptoir". He would finally become director of the shop, but this thirty-two-year old man got acquainted with the limits of the comptoir and the areas in which he would be more likely to have a better production.

The A. Wittnauer Co. would become the exclusive sales agent for Longines in1880. This relationship lasted for the next 114 years. In 1936, the Wittnauer family sold A. Wittnauer Co. and renamed the Longines-Wittnauer Co. the name became so pervasive that some people think that the watches are synonymous. But, of course, they are not. Their movements are distinct and not interchangeable with one another.