Longines Nixie clock up for auction

Yohan Park

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:11:13 AM1/26/21

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Never seen this before.
Longines Nixie clock

Mike Harrison

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:28:54 AM1/26/21

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:11:13 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>Never seen this before.
>Longines Nixie clock

><https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/603/124-longines-electronic-nixie-tubes-clock-295-x-120-x-120-mm>
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>[image: Longines.jpg]

There was one of these in the London Science museum for many years

David Eustace

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:33:36 AM1/26/21

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A chap on the facebook forum restored one of these a short while ago. Beautiful clock.

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Dekatron42

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Jan 26, 2021, 10:22:26 AM1/26/21

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The auction sold for roughly $3120 and had a starting price of roughly $1100.

/Martin

Yohan Park

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:25:57 PM1/26/21

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Can anyone tell me what the single digit next to the seconds display is for?

Nicholas Stock

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:33:55 PM1/26/21

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10ths of seconds.

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Yohan Park

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:41:06 PM1/26/21

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Oh dear, that's a busy display then... :D

Nicholas Stock

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:51:27 PM1/26/21

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I disagree....that's 'eye candy'... :) I 'think' this may have been a clock used for timing events? Longines were well known for their sports timers....but then again, could be smoking something strong. I seem to remember a tear-down of one of these clocks somewhere on the web...I'll try and locate it.....Anyway, $3K for this does seem a little steep.

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David Eustace

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Jan 26, 2021, 4:53:42 PM1/26/21

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Eye of beholder and all that, but here's someone's video - I think that's really nice, the tens of seconds only - gives it a stopwatch look. https://youtu.be/3XJZ0Nz_vks

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Dalibor

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Jan 27, 2021, 3:28:56 AM1/27/21

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And it has a great story behind it - explaining the 10th of a second position.. And it is quite rare - one of the few nixie clocks that were designed in the nixie tube era..

Nice post about it here:

http://www.newdwf.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=4811#p37647