The Vintage Watcher

Here’s a watch I’ve never seen before, the Longines Comet. I love the 70’s styling of this watch: with the square case and rounded corners, and the big earnest dial in red.  Usually called a mystery dial because instead of centrally mounted hands, the indicators are mounted on clear disks which move “mysteriously.”  Usually there is a dot for the hours and another dot for minutes, but this Longines has a very large arrow which acts as the hour hand.  The minutes “hand” is the smaller dot moving on the outer track. There is something in-your-face about this dial that makes me smile.  The hands and hour indicators look well lumed, and like any vintage watch of this era, you need to make sure that it is not radioactive radium. However, the small “T“‘s by “SWISS MADE” at the 6:00 o’clock position, tells us that the lume is tritium, non-radioactive. It is a manual wind movement, with a nicely marked Longines crown (always a plus).  The thing I really like about this watch is the bracelet, called a “coffin” bracelet for all the little links that look like coffins, basically. The handsome bracelet and smartly makred clasp go well with the his 35mm watch.  Something I would wear and like to have in the collection.  Price is a little high at $1995 but still decent for this model in this condition WATCHESTOBUY.COM.