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Dear Ed,

Thank you for bearing with me!

Finally I dug out the (very lame) Longines' explanation of their L699 caliber...

May be I'm totally wrong, but I see NO "innovation" or enhancement in making this part of watch-face movable - how do I know if the watch on the picture you've posted is 12-seconds fast or - to the contrary - is it 48-seconds slow?! In my eyes it looks like a not-very-clever idea. How should I interpret the other hands' positions? They no longer correspond to real/meaningful time.

A stop-second arrangement is far better approach - with an initial setting to gain some reasonably small time, - so that one could just stop the watch to wait for the time-mark on the radio and release the mechanism. All my quartz wrist-watches do gain ~10 seconds a month, but they are too cheap to implement the stop-second feature properly. It must be done with a separate position of the clock winder: extracted to the first "click" it must stop the watch, and only in the second "click" it should engage the gears to set the hour/minute hands. If extracting the clock winder did not upset the hands on my watches - it would be perfecto.

OK, now its' all clear with this watch. Thank you for all the explanations!

Warm regards,

Tony

60°N 30°E

PS

Could you please post the PS source of the scales? I'd like to modify it for the 24-hour watch.