First introduced in 1933 to mark its collaboration with the famous aviator, the best quality fake Longines Lindbergh’s Atlantic Voyage chronograph watch was re-issued several times with some minor tweaking to its dial layout.It is not the first time that Longines brushes off some dust of its vintage-styled Charles Lindbergh chronograph model.
Longines says nothing about the movement’s specs but I can make an educated guess that this is some kind of a pocket watch caliber.*
Like a genuine aviator’s watch, the new edition sports a high-contrast dial layout with bold Arabic numerals and a tachometric scale, which is actually usable.
This new sequel to the “historic” model comes in the same oversized 47.5 mm case housing a humbly decorated automatic movement that can be seen via transparent case back. The latter is protected from occasional dents with a stainless steel “hunter-back” cover.
Designed to power modern oversized Longines copy watches, the caliber is built on 27 jewels and is whopping 37.22 millimeters in diameter easily dwarfing most common automatic movements from ETA S.A. and their numerous clones.
Regrettably, notwithstanding its huge rotor and impressive bridges and plates, the movement comes almost undecorated (besides some pretty basic Geneva stripes) making it quite boring to look at. What a waste.
I mean, the Longines Lindbergh’s Atlantic Voyage is so large that the Swiss brand has even managed to make the numerals on the scale big enough to be seen with a naked eye.
* UPDATE ON CALIBER: Okay, I was wrong about the caliber. I have just learned that the watch is in fact powered by the Caliber L705 self-winding movement, which is based on the relatively new ETA Valgranges A07.231 ebauche.
* UPDATE ON PRICE: The Lindbergh’s Atlantic Voyage is now offered at a minimum recommended street price of $4700. While not really affordable, the MSRP still seems to be quite justified mainly thanks to its use of the aforementioned Valgranges caliber that, even despite the lack of meticulous finish you normally expect in this price range, still offers a very good blend of reliability and accuracy with guaranteed accuracy of -5/+15 seconds per day. Also, the timekeeper itself looks quite classy in its usual deliberately humble kind of way even despite its deliberately oversized case. While most XXL-size steel fake Longines Lindbergh’s Atlantic Voyage watches usually tend to also look sort of blingy, this one makes a very good impression and would probably look great if worn by a big person.