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nilomis
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Of course not ...

The original Lind is huge, if I remember.

This one is important, for me, because it contains the last true in house movement made by Longines, a brand that has a lot of history in terms of watchmaking.

It's from 1977, meaning that I believe it qualifies as vintage.

Since no one follow link, I copy/paste my original post with the info:

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From the Internet:

"In the mid-1970s, Longines began producing a series of automatic movements with twin spring barrels. They created some long-running movements that could serve as the basis for complications and would be quite accurate. After a couple years of production and refinement of caliber L890, Longines introduced caliber L990.1, a thin twenty-five jewel full-rotor automatic with twin side-by-side spring barrels. This little marvel measures only 2.95 mm thick and was, upon its introduction in Spring of 1977, the world's thinnest automatic movement with center seconds and calendar.

Longines used this family of movements in some very stylish, slender watches throughout the remainder of the 1970s and 1980s. Several years later, the design and tooling for L990 production was sold to Nouvelle Lemania, now also a Swatch Group member.

Redesignated Lemania Cal. 8815 in 1991 (with a host of elaborations including skeletonized and full calendar models), these modern Longines 990s have been used as the basis for watches by Ebel, Breguet, Vianney Halter, Roger Dubuis, RGM, Daniel Roth and, of course, Longines.

In 1999 Longines celebrated a significant milestone by introducing a series of gold watches powered by the Lemania 8815. The Longines 30 Millionth Watch limited edition series was a production of 990 watches, all with serial number 30,000,000. The watches were offered in three colors of 18k gold: 390 pieces in yellow, 300 in white and 300 more in pink. "

If this movement was embraced by Nouvelle Lemania and is still under manufacture, it may not be that fragile.
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Cheers,

Nilo