It was not until 2007 that Longines, a discreet giant of Swiss made watchmaking, based in Saint-Imier since 1832, launched its Legend Diver collection.
Seventy years earlier, in 1937, the winged hourglass brand imagined a first 38 mm-diameter case with waterproof pushers for its caliber 13ZN.
During the Second World War, it was also with a Longines H.S, an oversized wristwatch 51 mm in diameter, that the divers of the British Royal Navy explored the depths of the future landing beaches.
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To find the aquatic trace of the first "real" diver's watch, we must go back to the earliest days of civil scuba diving.
In 1958, the Nautilus Skin Diver was released, with a 40 mm case, waterproof to a depth of 120 m.
Its patented Compressor technology guaranteed the waterproofness of the case, just like on the Longines Diver of 1959. But the most famous of the brand's diving watches is undoubtedly the one worn on the wrist, on January 23rd...
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