Product code: 000050019788
A watch is unique in its kind, a true work of art of watchmaking technology, this exceptional model called Expedition Polaires Francaises has an history that deserves a mention: Longines has reissued the 'clock that accompanied the scientists who took part in the polar explorations, that the French and Paul Emile Victor, a tribute to these expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctica to explore the remote corners of our planet. The Longines Expeditions Polaires Françaises is an accurate reproduction of the instrument used at that time by geologists, geodetic, meteorologists, physicists, biologists, geographers, glaciologists and filmmakers who have joined the expedition. A piece of our history reinterpreted with today's technologies that are absolutely a unique timepiece. The watch features a mechanical movement with automatic winding, protected from the case entirely in stainless inissidabile and sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating layer in the lower part of the dial is silver with luminescent hands and indexes treated with Super-LumiNova®, the date placed at 3 o'clock.Engraved on the case back are the two geometrically opposed destinations of these legendary expeditions or the Arctic with Greenland, Antarctica and Adelie coast. The strap is black calf leather embellished by white stitching that make it even more delicate and elegant. The leather used for the creation of the straps come from animals bred using traditional methods. They do not ever come from protected species or animals whose number is so low as to pose a threat to their conservation. Certificate CITES (Convention on International Trade in Species of Wild Flora and Fauna Threatened with extinction.