The history of the Longines  armani  classic Company begins in St. Imier in the Swiss mountains aple  temps ovale in 1833 when a young audemars  piguet aple temps ovale man known as Auguste Agassiz audemars  piguet automatic went into partnership automatic with Florian More audemars  piguet cheap and Henri Raiguel to form a audemars  piguet classic company known as the Comptoir Raiguel audemars  piguet danae Jeune & Cie. For over 175 years, Longines is danae making its mark on the audemars  piguet millenary world of tennis, a sport that  millenary shares many of the audemars  piguet royal oak values of the royal  oak watchmaking audemars  piguet royal oak offshore brand, such as royal  oak offshore tradition and air wolf elegance. The Swiss watchmaker breitling air  wolf Longines has a solid avenger heritage as timekeeper for world breitling  avenger championships in various sports and collaborator with different international avenger  seawolf sports federations. Longines is a member breitling  avenger seawolf of the Swatch Group Ltd, the world's leading avenger  skyland manufacturer of breitling  avenger skyland horological products. With the winged bentley hourglass as its emblem, the brand has breitling  bentley outlets in over 130 countries.  In 1832, Auguste Agassiz entered bentley  gmt the world of watchmaking by establishing a  breitling  bentley gmt partnership with a bentley  motors watchmaking breitling  bentley motors counter in Saint-Imier. Before long, he quickly took control of the enterprise and renamed it ''Agassiz & compagnie''. At the time, the company assembled breitling  certifie watches according to the ''établissage'' method, with people working at home, and certifie developed trade links that enabled the company to sell breitling  chrono its timepieces around the chrono world, particularly in North America.  In the 1850s, Ernest Francillon, a nephew of Agassiz, took over the management of the reputed breitling  chrono avenger company and looked for ways to improve chrono  avenger the traditional manufacturing methods used in local breitling  chrono cockpit watchmaking. His idea was to group the different operations involved in the chrono  cockpit finalisation of timepieces together in one breitling  chrono superocean factory, where he would use chrono  superocean mechanical production methods to assemble and finish complete breitling  chronomat watches. To bring this chronomat project to fruition, he purchased breitling  classic two adjoining plots of land on the right bank of the river Suze breitling  cockpit in the Saint-Imier valley in 1866. This area cockpit of land was called ''Les Longines.'' To help him develop the machines he needed to breitling  colt perfect the watchmaking processes, Ernest Francillon employed a young colt relative, an engineer named Jacques David.  In the 1870s, the breitling  colt automatic industrial approach that Francillon had chosen proved highly colt  automatic successful and the factory continued to grow colt gmt until the first third of the 20th breitling  colt gmt century. By 1911, the Longines factory breitling  colt oceane employed more than 1,100 people and its colt  oceane watches were being breitling  colt quartz distributed around the world.  The technical research colt  quartz carried out at Longines breitling  emergency mission was recognized by many emergency  mission awards and distinctions. In fact, the brand with breitling  evolution the winged hourglass was named ''Leading Prize Winner'' at several evolution international exhibitions, right up until breitling  mont brillant the Barcelona Exhibition of 1929, and won no mont  brillant fewer than 10 Grands Prix. The winged hourglass logo breitling  montbrillant together with montbrillant the ''Longines'' name breitling  navitimer form the oldest navitimer brand symbols still in use breitling  skyracer today and are skyracer registered with the World Intellectual breitling  super avenger Property Organisation. They have remained unchanged super  avenger since 1867, when they were introduced as a sign of breitling  superocean quality to superocean combat the growing number of counterfeits breitling  superocean heritage trying to benefit from the excellent reputation of superocean  heritage Longines products.  Thanks to the expertise that breitling  superocean heritage 46 Longines developed in-house, the superocean  heritage 46 company established a special relationship with the world of  breitling  superocean heritage chronographe sport. It invented several devices for the precise timing of sporting events, such as the ''broken wire'' automatic  superocean  heritage chronographe timing system used at the Swiss Federal Gymnastics meeting in 1912, the Photogines assiomad , the first mechanism to link timing with a photo finish, in 1952, and the Contifort in 1960, which was the bvlgari  assiomad first system to combine timing b zero 1 with a moving image. These inventions enabled bvlgari b zero  1 Longines to provide the timing for a large number of bvlgari  classic world-class events and bvlgari ergon secured its place in the annals of ergon sport. Its supreme mastery of highly demanding technology 21  chronoscaph encouraged the company to propose its timing systems to the world of Formula 1, and a cartier  21 chronoscaph prestigious partnership developed with the famous 21  must de cartier Italian car company, Ferrari.  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The company is also the official timekeeper cartier  jewellery for the French Tennis Championships at Roland Garros, one of the world's four Grand Slam declaration tournaments.  Longines is also present on cartier  la dona de cartier the ''White Circus'', timing numerous Alpine ski la  dona de cartier events in various places including Levi (Finland), Aspen and Beaver Creek (USA), Val Gardena, Bormio, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Tarvisio and Sestrière (Italy), Adelboden and Wengen (Switzerland), cartier  lanieres Maribor and Kranjska Gora (Slovenia), Garmisch Partenkirchen and Ofterschwang lanieres (Germany), Bansko (Bulgaria) and Kvitfjell (Norway), as well as the finals cartier libre of the World Cup in Are (Sweden) and the World libre Championships in Val d’Isère (France).  To embody its values of cartier love tradition, elegance and performance, Longines has appointed several cartier pasha Ambassadors of Elegance. These are celebrities whose pasha personalities correspond to the brand's image, such as the famous tennis couple Andre Agassi and cartier  roadster Stefanie Graf, the Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the Chinese star Aaron Kwok Fu Shing, the Russian roadster actor Oleg Menshikov and the Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Other Longines Ambassadors of Elegance include the models Denise Keller and cartier rond  louis Chi Ling Lin, and the German actor Peter Lohmeyer.  The watchmaking brand has also rond  louis entrusted its reputation to sportsmen and -women santos who actively personify its most cherished values in cartier tank competition. The Norwegian skier Aksel Lund Svindal, the Swiss riders Jane Richard and Markus tank Fuchs, the gymnast Shawn Johnson, and the Chinese men's gymnastic cartier  tank americaine team are all Longines Ambassadors tank  americaine of Elegance.  Despite these strong links with sport, the company does cartier  tank francaise not confine itself to tank  francaise timing competitive events. Since 1919, it has been the official supplier cartier tank  solo to the FAI, the World Air Sports Federation, and has provided the tank solo aeronautical world with the timing equipment cartier tank required to verify several cartier  tank americaine world tank records. Among them was the historic human and technical achievement of the tank  americaine American pilot, Charles Lindbergh, who, in 1927, made the first non-stop limited  edition solo crossing of the North Atlantic in his vessel named ''Spirit of St Louis''. Longines instruments have thus mont  blanc limited edition accompanied many explorers on journeys around the planet and have supported the pioneers of the sky.  Today, Longines creates timepieces cartier  tank francaise that are adapted to the constraints of tank  francaise modern times without sacrificing its core values. The watchmaking tradition tank  francaise of the winged-hourglass brand is exemplified by tank solo models in the Longines Master Collection, the Longines Evidenza, Longines Spirit cartier  tankissime , or the Heritage Collection (Flagship Heritage, Longines Clous de Paris,mont blanc  classic Conquest Heritage, or Les Elégantes de Longines). Its devotion tankissime to elegance is expressed in the Longines Dolce Vita,  lv tambour Longines BelleArti (contemporary elegance) or La Grande Classique de tambour Longines (classic elegance) collections.  Finally, all of its sporting experience is cartier  tortue invested in performance, with models tortue such as the HydroConquest, Conquest, GrandVitesse and Longines Admiral. The Longines portuguese Sport Legends (The Longines Weems automatic Second-Setting Watch, the Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch, the  longines  automatic Longines Legend Diver and the assioma Longines Istituto Idrografico R. Marinalongines  classic Watch) all pay tribute to the famous instruments that have lv classic been invented by lv box the brand with the bvlgari  assioma winged hourglass.  Longines is a member of the Swatch Group, the omega  box world's leading producer of watches and associated chanel j12 products. Its signature is timeless elegance based on a rich aesthetic heritage casabalance that it keeps up-to-date with a skilful blend of replenishment  cost refinement and classicism. Its current models are inspired by a history of franck  muller casabalance daring technology and titoni  box bold styling nurtured hublot  classic within the Manufacture, a huge laboratory that iwc classic carefully protects the profile of Longines creations.  With world-spanning ambitions from iwc pilots the start, Longines is proud to make its timepieces, and the historical values pilots that come with them, available today in more than 130 rolex  box countries. Over and above all else, its varied activities worldwide all heed a single iwc  portuguese overarching principle: the cult of elegance.