Based on a military-issue timepiece from 1935, it looks right at home in 2023.
Longines has long been associated with aviation and its pioneers. The 190-year-old brand was particularly busy in the 1930s, making the aviation watches worn by both Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. In the middle of that decade, the house also created a new pilot’s watch expressly for the Czech Air Force, a watch that is known—in company lore—as the Majetek.
The name Majetek comes from the inscription engraved on the case backs of the original watches that read “majetek vojenske spravy” which roughly translated from Czech means “property of the military” to remind wearers that the watches were to be returned. Majetek basically means “property,” and though nonsensical in itself it stuck, no doubt, as a convenient in-house shorthand for these simple tool watches.with all the functional demeanour—and aesthetic appeal—of the 1935 original.
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