# @sothebyswatches on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COfmHkCrK0H
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12828682-sothebyswatches-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/e233d947c8.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-05-05T13:54:32.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sotheby's Watches (@sothebyswatches) — https://gondola.cc/sothebyswatches

## Caption

We’ve taken off on an adventure with accidentallywesanderson! Join us on a trip back to the ‘Golden Age of Aviation’, to Floyd Bennet Field, New York, inspired by this important watch. ✈️ 🧭 ⌚️ 
 
✈️ The two runways opened in 1931, complete with a flashy upmarket terminal. Dozens of around-the-world flights started or ended on its runways, including those piloted by Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes.
 
✈️ The venture that encouraged the construction of Floyd Bennett Field was the famous and much coveted Ortieg prize—$25,000 offered to the first aviator who completed a non-stop flight between New York and Paris. Early attempts had claimed lives. It was a prize dreamt of by hundreds; but finally completed by Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh, who made his made his famous non-stop solo flight over the North Atlantic in 1927.
 
✈️ Among his lucky gear was his model aviator “hack” watch, which could be set precisely to the second, rather than the minute. Those seconds were essential.
 
✈️ Lindbergh designed a navigational instrument and had Longines bring it to life. Used in conjunction with a sextant and a nautical almanac, the Lindbergh Hour Angle watch helped aviators calculate longitude which, when combined with their latitude, gave them their exact geographical location. 
 
✈️ The example shown here will be offered in Geneva this May 11! Click the link in bio to learn more.

✈️ Head to our stories, or follow accidentallywesanderson for more adventures! 

🖋📸 accidentallywesanderson. 

#aviation #charleslindbergh #floydbennettfield #sothebysluxury #sothebyswatches #importantwatches #aviationwatches

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