Hodinkee’s Watch Report: Longines’ Chronograph Legacy
Here’s a question: who made the best chronographs in the 1940s and ’50s? If you answered Patek Philippe, you’re half right. Patek absolutely made some of the best and still most desirable chronos in the middle part of last century, but there was another manufacturer making truly top-notch stopwatch mechanisms for the wrist—and that was Longines. Yes, Longines.