Longines Serge Manzon ref 5014

I am always on the lookout for unusual things and when I can unearth super cool and especially “off the beaten path” vintage watches I am really pleased regardless of the price.

This vintage Longines is a really unusual watch as were Grima’s Omegas or Pierre Cardin’s JLCs just to be explained.
1972 Longines commissioned Sergé Manzon to make designer watches. Sergé began his career as a gem dealer and then became a film producer and finally a designer. He created furniture, jewelry, watches, clothes, and a whole range of fashion accessories. Manzon is a man of genius in terms of his design style.

At the Basel Fair in 1973 Longines presented the Serge Manzon Collection consisting of twenty different watches .This model I show you is one of his designs.

A beautiful elegant jewel on the wrist, a powerful statement against convention. The Serge Manzon Collection for Longines remains one of the most surprising and unusual collections Longines has ever launched.

The central case is a 925 silver ingot, gently curved to follow the contour of the wrist. It features a pill-shaped dial opening, in which we find a mirrored dial with cross stripes. The lugs are an exercise in style: four articulated silver blocks flank the case and provide the connection between the case and the original crocodile leather strap of the period .The shape and proportions of these watches are crazy like nothing else produced to date.
In addition to this it has anchoro the stamp on the case back.This is a truly fantastic piece.

The cal .7102 electromechanical movement was a real novelty in the early 1970s. It has been completely checked and overhauled.
When I find unusual pieces like this, with a history behind them and especially in this price range, they go fast–this is a watch that sings.
Case dimensions with lugs 49mm, width with lug 30mm, height 11mm.

Longines Sergè Manzon ref 5014
Serial 168072**,circa 1978

Case:
925 sterling silver in very good condition
dimensions 49mm x 30mm x 11mm

Movement:

original electromechanical movement cal 7102
in excellent condition and overhauled

Dial:
original black Longines
in very good condition

Case back:
original Longines 925 sterling silver with engraved reference 5014
in very good condition with stamp

Bracelet:
original crocodile leather strap of the time
925 sterling silver buckle
in very good condition

Accessories: none