Born2bwire
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I found a shop here in Hong Kong that carried the watch. First impression, feckin huge! Too big for my wrist and dwarfs my Speedmaster Pro. The font and the dial are very nice and I guess the size of the watch makes the seconds numerals less of an issue. One other thing I did not like was that while the dial is set in a good crisp font, the tachymetre is laid on a (faux) ivory/plastic ring that makes its font look soft. I would have preferred it to be as crisp as the rest of the watch.
The watch back is plain with a simple logo engraved in the metal and it opens to reveal the rear sapphire window and a nice engraved inscription on the inside back plate. The innards are not very interesting to look at and are a bit plain so the rear glass is a bit unnecessary though it seems to be expected with any recent luxury watch these days.
The movement runs nice and I do like that the tachymetre extends past 60 down to 55, it's a nice way to use up the space between the standard 60 and 500 marks. And the font and style of the dial and hands are very classy.
All in all it is a nice watch, worth checking out at least, but the price is way too high in my opinion. They had it listed at $40,000 HKD, around $5,125 USD.
| Originally Posted by xenithon /img/forum/go_quote.gif Longines Lindbergh's Atlantic Voyage Watch I really like this watch - I like the classic Longines watches which are similar to this, but hated the fact that they cut some of the numbers in half (e.g., the 6 at the bottom) which looked tacky and unprofessional. This one is definitely my style: 
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I found a shop here in Hong Kong that carried the watch. First impression, feckin huge! Too big for my wrist and dwarfs my Speedmaster Pro. The font and the dial are very nice and I guess the size of the watch makes the seconds numerals less of an issue. One other thing I did not like was that while the dial is set in a good crisp font, the tachymetre is laid on a (faux) ivory/plastic ring that makes its font look soft. I would have preferred it to be as crisp as the rest of the watch.
The watch back is plain with a simple logo engraved in the metal and it opens to reveal the rear sapphire window and a nice engraved inscription on the inside back plate. The innards are not very interesting to look at and are a bit plain so the rear glass is a bit unnecessary though it seems to be expected with any recent luxury watch these days.
The movement runs nice and I do like that the tachymetre extends past 60 down to 55, it's a nice way to use up the space between the standard 60 and 500 marks. And the font and style of the dial and hands are very classy.
All in all it is a nice watch, worth checking out at least, but the price is way too high in my opinion. They had it listed at $40,000 HKD, around $5,125 USD.
