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SINCE JOINING EBAY TEN YEARS AGO WE- HAVE POSTED OVER 150,000 PERMANENT IMAGES
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THE VINTAGE WATCH INDUSTRY. THIS WEEMS WAS INVESTED IN ON EBAY. WE OFTEN INVEST WITH FELLOW DEALERS.
WE BELIEVED THEN AND NOW IT IS ONE OF THE FIRST 200 WEEMS GAVE THE ARMY AIR CORPS IN 1935
THESE ONLY HAD “LONGINES ON THE DIAL AFTER A COMPLETE OVERHAUL A WARRANTY AND APPRAISAL IS INCLUDED
WE HAVE 3 SERVERS ONE JUST FOR APPRAISALS THAT VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR TIME PIECES
BEFORE YOU INVEST READ THE FOLLOWING TWO PAGES NO LINKS ADDS JUST PAST RESTORES ON EBAY & HISTORY
THE HISTORY OF THE AVIATOR WATCH
OUR WORKS? WE CHECK THEM, REVIVE THEM , RESTORE THEM SHOOT THEM, WRITE THEM, HISTORY THEM, THEN APPRAISE THEM
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I AM ROCK
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*************************************************** READY TO WEAR LONGINES
WITH FREE PROFESSIONAL ONLINE APPRAISAL FREE ONE YEAR GSW LIMITED WARRANTY WITH 26.00 INTERNATIONAL SUBSIDIZED SHIPPING **************************************** YOUR STRAP OR BRACELET ROCK HAS A RARE LEATHER STRAP THAT IS AS OLD AS THIS NEAR FIRST EDITION HACKING WEEMS. UNUSUAL AND IN GREAT CONDITION, IT UTILIZED BY A PILOT. MADE OF METAL, LEATHER AND ROPE, IT WILL FIT TO SIZE 8 INCH WRIST. IF YOU WOULD RATHER HAVE THE FAMOUS SLINK SPRING PILOTS BRACELET OR LEATHER STRAP, JUST LET US KNOW, A LEATHER OR LIZARD STRAP. NO EXTRA CHARGE/FEE UNLESS AN UPGRADE SKIN/HIDE –LIKE GAITER, CROCK– ETC, A METAL BRACELET MAY BE ORDERED…
WHEEMS DOWN AT BOTTOM IS A RECORD OF WATCHES USED BY US MILITARY. THIS MODEL WAS UTILIZED BY PILOTS 1929-1936’S. THIS VERY MODEL WITH LOCK AT 2 AND BASIC ORIGINAL DIAL BECAME ONLY THE SECOND LONGINES MILITARY PILOTS WRIST WATCHES. THEN IT BECAME ONE OF THE FIRST A-11 PILOTS WATCHES DURING WWII. THE A-11 DESIGNATION HAVE US ARMY ON THE SWEEPS BRIDGE. THE LONGINES A-7 WAS THE FIRST USAA BUT ENDED [ 1934 LAST YEAR ] BECAUSE TOO MUCH MONEY AND CONTINUED NAVIGATION PROBLEMS, SO BAD THE SECRETARY OF WAR WAS INVOLVED! THE NEXT [#2] PILOTS WATCH WAS THE WEEMS IN 1935. 200 FREE AND THE PURCHASE OF 1800. THE NEXT [#3] PILOTS WATCH WRIST WAS THE A-11. 1940 – 1945. SEE AVIATOR LINK!– THE A-11 DID NOT EXIST FROM 1934 TO 1939. WEEMS WAS THE ONLY HACKING MILITARY WATCH IN ITS TIME. THE HISTORY OF THE AVIATOR WATCHYOU WILL REMAIN HERE
THE FIRST TRUE AFFORDABLE AVIATORS WATCH The First True Aviators Watch Designed By A Pilot Specifically For Pilots By An Industry Great That Laid The Ground Work For Both The Linburgh Hour Angle Watch And Glycine Airman Was The Longine Weems…. …
In 1927 – The Year Lindbergh Crossed The Atlantic. Captain Philip Van Horn Weems (1889-1979) Designed The “Weems System Of Navigation” His “System” Employed A Modified Sextant Taking Two “Shots” Of The Sun, Allied To An Accurate Time Reading From His “Second Setting Watch”, Followed By Making Reference To The Tables In The Line Of Positions Book.
In 1929,Captain Philip Van Horn Weems DESIGNED A Second Setting Watch Watch That Used A Rotating Exterior Bezel Or Center Dial With Minutes/Seconds Chapter Ring To Synchronize The Watch To The Second Using The Radio Time Signal Without Adjusting The Hands AND Incorporated A Second “Locking” Crown That Allowed The User To Lock Down The Rotating Bezel At The Precise Timing On The Bezel.
***************************** I RESTORED THIS TO FULL DIAL RED LINE AT 12, CHAPTERS, LONGINES WEEMS AND PATENT, THE ORIGINAL DIAL HAD NOTHING BUT LONGINES. WHICH WAS THE ONLY LETTERING ALLOWED UNTIL WWII AND ON COMPLETE BAN. We have 150,000 images of our completed restores online;rock began trading vintage watches in 1992 on the polygon jeweler NETWORKr We have demonstrated that there are several serious versions of the Weems. The first did not have a patent. The patent was added in 1936.Weems watches for military had only longines [1935] To Demonstrate Why YOu Should Invest W/Us Please Select This Link To Our GETTING BACK TO VERSIONS. THERE IS NO WRITING ON DIA/DEFENSE VERSIONS AFTER 1935 – WHICH IS AN OFFICIAL US MILITARY RULE — WE HAVE MANY DOCUMENTS INCLUDING THE EXPLANATION FOR THIS RULE. THEN THERE IS THE 1936 VERSION WITH THE OFFICIAL PATENT, LONGINES AND WEEMS ON DIAL THERE IS THE AC VERSION THAT WAS CREATED IN THE 1940’S. IT IS THE A-11 VERSION. PROBLEM WAS THE WEEMS WAS OUT CLASSED BY THE BIG 3, BULOVA, ELGIN, WALTHAM A-11. AS YOU WILL SEE THROUGH OUR FREE PDF, AM “AC”, SIGNAGE ON BACK WITH THE REGULAR A-11 SPECS . BUT NOT MANY DUE TO THE FACT THE DIAL DID NOT MEET SPECS AND OTHER CAUSES. THERE WERE 200 1935 WEEMS THAT WERE PROVIDED FREELY WHEN THE ARMY AIR CORPS HAD A TERRIFIC PROBLEM WITH NAVIGATION PROBLEMS. THESE 200 WERE SHIPPED TO TWO BASES. THEN, IN 1936, 1800 WERE PURCHASED FOR THE US ARMY AIR CORPS. THESE WERE NOT STAMPED, SIGNED OR GIVEN A MILITARY NUMBER. LIKE A-7 A-11 A-17 3118B IN FACT, THE COSTLY LARGE A-7 LONGINES –I HAVE PIC BELOW- NAVIGATION WATCH WAS ENDED DURING THIS TIME. IT WAS REPLACED WITH WEEMS. NO NUMBER UNTIL 1940!!!! WHICH IT JOINED THE A-11 CLASS UNTIL LONGINES PRODUCED THE STRAIGHT LONGINES A-11. A HACKING LONGINES ON THE LARGE SIDE–COMPARED WITH ELGIN WATHAM BULOVA AND WEEMS. THIS ORIGINAL WEEMS PURCHASED ON EBAY IN FEBRUARY 2015 LATER, IN WWII, ALL WATCHES WOULD NEVER EVER HAVE MAKERS NAME
FROM
AVIATOR PHILIP VAN HORN WEEMS
HIMSELF WE DO NOT KNOW IF HE WENT TO WASHINGTON FROM OUR VAST OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FILES
CHOOSE THE STRAP OR BRACELET OF YOUR CHOICE WANT MATCHING HANDS JUST ASK WHEN YOU INVEST NOTE THE ROTATING BEZEL LOCK AT 2 A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WORK WENT INTO THIS RESTORATION BUT THIS PARTICULAR MODEL IS ONE OF THE FIRST MADE.
********************* His “System” Then Employed A Modified Sextant Taking Two “Shots” Of The Sun, Allied To An Accurate Time Reading From His “Second Setting Watch”, Followed By Making Reference To The Tables In The Line Of Positions Book. (The Line Of Position Book Provided Extensive Charts With Pre-calculated Positions; Allowing A Pilot To Look Up The Positions Quickly And Easily, Instead Of Performing The Complicated Calculations Himself.) ****************************************
******************************************* In 1929, in partnership with Longines, Weems registered a patent for his design. Longines produced the original 28mm “WEEMS” with locking crown at 2 position and added a 30mm larger model with locking crown at 4 position., [thus the Weems came in two sizes. one the same size as the decade later U.S. GOV MIL WWII A-11 PILOTS WATCH] *********************************
AS YOU CAN SEE, ROCK PERFORMED SOME MAGIC
***************************************** The Weems System Along With His Invention Of The Second Setting Watch Enabled Pilots And Navigators To Read Truly Accurate Time Directly From The Watch Face During An Era When Chronometrical Precision Was Costly And Rare. Especially With The Help Of A Radio Signal….
Unless Your Watch Had A Hacking Seconds-Hand, Like The WWII A-11 Pilots Watch W/Hack [Introduced Ten Years AFTER THE WEEMS Later] along With Precise Timekeeping And You HAVE Set Your Watch Correctly In The First Place, You Can Be Out By A Few Seconds At Any Given Time And A Few Seconds At High Air Speeds Over Great Distances Can Prove Dangerous, If Not Fatal.
BEZEL WORKS PERFECT
[NOTE ROCK HAS THOUSANDS OF HANDS] IF YOU DESIRE HAND COLOR MATCHING LET ME KNOW NO EXTRA TIME. I HAVE 8 SETS OF WEEMS HANDS
OK, THIS DIAL IS IN MINT AND PROPER CONDITION
SLIDE HOLDER IS MOUNTED ON LOCK DOWN DOWN
CASE DETAILED MOVEMENT DROPPED IN
THIS IS A SUPER RARE STRAP
ABOVE IS THE 1930’S LEATHER STRAP. IT IS A MAN’S STRAP AND FITS UP TO AN 8 INCH WRIST. IT IS SIMPLE TO MOUNT A STANDARD STRAP, BUT A RARE PIECE LIKE THIS IS SIMPLY AWESOME. LIFTS VALUE AND WILL CREATE A BUZZ,
ROCK WAS OUT OF SPRING BARS WHEN I TOOK PICS TELL ME THIS IS NOT A KILLER STRAP. LOTS OF FUN THINGS GOING ON.
WAITING FOR SPRING BARS
BOTH SIDES ARE SUPER
ABOVE IS A SPRING BRACELET
ACTUAL WWII WATCH SPRING
SIZE 8
ACTUALLY 8.5
THE FIRST HACKING PILOTS WATCH A HACKED SPLIT SECONDS LONGINES CONVERTED TO WRIST WATCH DESIGNATED A-7 AVIGATION [NAVIGATION& AVIATION].
SPRING BARS NEEDED
WE DOUBLED AND THEN DOUBLED THE CHECKING OF THE SIZE
ABOVE ARE US MILITARY WATCHES NOTE THE A-11 WAS NOT PART NOR PORTION OF AIR CORPS UNTIL 1940 THEN WHEN THE A-11 DESIGNATION WAS PUT FORTH 1940+ THE BRANDED WEEMS A-11 WAS PRODUCED
SUBMITTING A WATCH TO THE US MILITARY
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