Opinion on fixed bars/gold filled.

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Have emailed Longines for archive extract, but until I hear back I know nothing about this, except great dial, gold filled and with fixed bars. Understand why a watch would have fixed bars, especially during WWII period, but isn’t that combined with the gold rather than steel rather incongruous?
 
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Incongruity is the least you your worries with this one. You're missing at the very least a bridge, the seconds pinion and part of the regulator.

As far as the fixed bars, desperate times called for desperate measures.
 
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Thanks for the response. Actually the missing parts are the least of my worries, I got it for the dial.
 
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Fixed bars can be found on both steel and gold cases from this period. For gold, I imagine that one justification could be to avoid damaging the relatively soft gold lugs with a spring bar.
 
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