{"product_id":"longines-single-button-flyback-chronograph-black-dial","title":"Single-Button Flyback Chronograph, Black Tachymeter Dial, c.1940s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Longines single-button chronograph whose hands never stop: a light press on the pusher holds them for a reading, a full press sends them back to zero and straight on again. Steel, 32mm, with its black BREVET dial spotted by age.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the five-hand version of the Longines flyback chronograph, in a 32mm steel case. The time is read from the leaf hands and the small seconds at 6. Over them run two central chronograph hands, a thin steel seconds hand and a red minute hand, and they do not stop. A light press on the pusher at 2 o'clock holds them for a reading; a full press sends both back to zero and they run straight on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat continuous running is the whole idea. A conventional chronograph has to be started, stopped and reset, and the moment spent resetting is lost. Here the next interval begins as the last one is read, which suited timing one event after another: laps, intervals, a pulse against the seconds. The red hand turns once an hour against the inner track, so a run of up to sixty minutes is read from the centre of the dial without a separate counter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is glossy black, printed around the edge with a spiral tachymeter on a base of 1000 that starts at 60 beneath the twelve and winds inward to 1000. The cream Arabic numerals are large and open, the hour and minute hands are polished steel leaves, and the small seconds carries a gilt hand. The black has aged in patches, with brown and gold spotting spread across the field and heaviest in the upper half, while the printing, the numerals and the scales remain sharp. It is unrestored.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case is plain and well proportioned, with long tapered lugs, a snap back with no engraving and a domed acrylic crystal. The rectangular pusher sits above a knurled crown on the right-hand side. At 32mm across and 39mm lug to lug it wears as a compact watch, closer to a dress watch on the wrist than to the large pilots' versions of the same movement. The steel shows honest use, light scratches most visible on the back, with the edges still full and sharp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt runs, winds and sets, and the chronograph holds and returns to zero as it should. The condition and the particulars are set out below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55034751713619,"sku":"WW-0010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/longines-stainless-steel-wristwatch-1.jpg?v=1790165290","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/longines-single-button-flyback-chronograph-black-dial","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}