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And Perhaps the "Comet" Didn't Help the Perception

Longines: fine history; fine movements; fine design . . . and then this!!

I kind of like it!!

Jeff

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: The prices commanded by 30CH- and 13ZN-powered pieces don't suggest
: that they are underappreciated at all! I do think they are a
: connoisseur's taste, though, rather like Universal Geneve,
: Minerva and a few other houses that had their years of
: chronograph greatness perhaps a generation before Heuer hit its
: stride.
: For the average consumer, though, Longines today has been
: positioned below Omega in the pecking order, and as a result
: does not command the respect and appreciation that it formerly
: did.

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