Leonidas is a prestigious Swiss watch brand founded in 1841, renowned for its military timepieces and complex chronographs. A major turning point occurred in 1964 when Leonidas merged with Heuer (the precursor to today's TAG Heuer) to become Heuer-Leonidas SA.
The highlight of this Leonidas timepiece is its successful integration of the technically masterful Felsa 693 movement.
The Felsa 693 is a 17-jewel automatic movement featuring the most complex functions in the Bidynator series, including day, date, month, and moon phase indicators. Produced by Felsa in Switzerland (under the Ebauches S.A. group) starting in the 1940s, this caliber represents a major milestone in watchmaking history as part of the second-generation Bidynator line, which was the first automatic series to feature a bi-directional winding mechanism.
