Longines Manzon Lady in sterling silver - Original strap & buckle this piece blends Swiss craftsmanship

this piece blends Swiss craftsmanship

historically significant

This particular example carries a champagne "panna" dial — a warm

In white gold

the date window with its magnifying cyclops — all present here in their earliest fully resolved form

Longines Manzon Lady in sterling silver - Original strap & buckle this piece blends Swiss craftsmanshipThe Longines Manzon is one of the more striking objects to emerge from the Swiss watch industry's experimental years of the early 1970s a period when the quartz crisis was pushing mechanical watchmakers to compete on design rather than technology alone. Designed by Serge Manzon, the French designer whose work straddled jewellery and industrial design with equal fluency, the model applied an almost sculptural logic to the watch: four bold rectangular