Longines Spirit Flyback is a timely reminder of the brand's pioneering roots
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The new Spirit watch harkens back to Longines’ early days as a chronograph innovator
Did you know that Longines filed for a patent for its flyback mechanism in 1935? Its 13ZN calibre was granted the patent in 1936, a world’s first. The movement was the heartbeat of its first serial chronograph with a flyback function, a model famously worn by American aviator Richard Byrd as he piloted a plane over South Pole in 1929.
In fact, Longines produced one of the first wristwatch chronographs with a flyback function as early as 1925.
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But what makes the flyback so special? It’s an additional function of the chronograph that instantly resets the seconds hand to zero with a single push. A conventional chronograph requires one to stop the chronograph before it can be reset.
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