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spade_lt wrote: ↑June 20th, 2019, 3:27 am

thelonedoc wrote: ↑June 19th, 2019, 9:09 pmThose movements have a lot of history too, I beleive it's a longines design that was used in the old wittnauer military clocks. The type that were mounted to the dash boards of various military vehicles and aircrafts.

They were used by Wittnauer, but they are not Longines, it's a Revue Thommen patented design

Longines had an 8 day design, but it looks quite differently:

thelonedoc wrote: ↑June 20th, 2019, 7:59 am I think this is where I read about it, looks like almost the same movement with just a different balance clock design and relocated train wheels. Not sure which movement came first but someone appears to have stolen a significant portion of the design elements.

http://www.cockpitclock.com/LONGINES.html

spade_lt wrote: ↑June 20th, 2019, 8:25 am Note that the movement isn't marked Longines.
That's basically the same movement as above - have a closer look at the winding bridge, it even has the cut out for the balance wheel on the side. This (most probably, later) version was adapted to have central seconds. tictactoc on HF1 had some comparison pics of both movements.

I highly doubt design was "stolen". Thommen made and sold movements to a lot of companies - including f.ex. Rolex. And these twin barrel movements are found marked GT, Wittnauer, Majestic. But I have never seen Longines, which is to be expected - at the time Longines made their movements themselves...

Here is the patent: https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/d ... &pdfpage=3