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Serge Manzon (1930-1989) was a post war contemporary artist whose worked spanned sculptures, furniture and lamp design, jewellery and watches. Longines employed him to design a series of avant-garde watches that they followed with heavy advertising. The present watch is one of Longines first Electronic watches using a magnet to pulse a more traditional watch balance. A huge advance in watch technology which was itself quickly replaced with Quartz.