Six Missing Explorer's Watches Whose Fate We'd Love To Know

Watches, like people, are born with certain traits, but are also, and often, the most interesting when they have led interesting lives.  The 20th century was one in which technology innovations made it possible to explore the world around us in ways impossible in previous centuries and of course, watches were an essential part of any explorer's kit.  Here are five that helped their owners make history, and which have disappeared from view – and whose fate we'd love to know.

Lindbergh's Longines Lindbergh Hour Angle

It seems odd, but a Longines Lindbergh Hour Angle watch actually owned and used by Charles Lindbergh seems elusive.  The watch was developed by Lindbergh to aid in calculating the hour angle – the angular distance of a celestial body from Greenwich, an essential part of aerial navigation – from the Weems Second-Setting watch.  The use of more sophisticated navigation methods, as well as highly specialized charts for celestial objects, eventually made them obsolete.  The Smithsonian Institute does have a vintage Hour Angle watch in its collection but it doesn't look like it was Lindbergh's – the watch was donated by the Stanley King family, and Stanley King was a collector of Lindbergh memorabilia – souvenir objects like commemorative plates – not Lindbergh's personal effects.  It would seem to be a foregone conclusion that Lindbergh must have owned an Hour Angle watch – after all, he designed the darned thing – but where it might be, we've been unable to determine.

Buzz Aldrin's Speedmaster

This is probably the most famous missing explorer's watch – the Buzz Aldrin Speedmaster.  The story is well known: Aldrin's Speedmaster was actually worn on the lunar surface (Neil Armstrong's was left in the LEM/Lunar Excursion Module) as a replacement mission timer when the LEM's cockpit mission timer failed.  It was supposed to have ended up at the Smithsonian Institute, but vanished somewhere in transit and to this day has eluded all attempts at detection and recovery (and people have tried).  

Jacques Cousteau's Blancpain Fifty Fathoms

This is another odd one.  The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms was a pioneering watch: one of the first true modern watches designed for SCUBA diving, with a rotating timing bezel and the general look and feel we now instinctively associate with dive watches.  Originally designed for the French "combat swimmers" by Captain Robert Maloubier and Lt. Claude Riffaud, it was famously worn by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in the Louis Malle film, The Silent World, in 1957.  Blancpain has a number of vintage Fifty Fathoms watches in its museum collection, but the one actually worn by Cousteau doesn't seem to be there, and we can't help but wonder where it ended up.

Scott Carpenter's Breitling Navitimer

This is another famous one.  Scott Carpenter was one of the "Mercury 7" astronauts and famously wore a Breitling Navitimer for his flight aboard the Aurora 7 Mercury spacecraft in 1962.  It was the first wristwatch ever used by an American astronaut in space and it would probably be not only historically interesting, but pretty valuable, were its location known.  At some point during splashdown and recovery, the watch got wet, and Carpenter sent it in to Breitling for service.  Breitling gave Carpenter a replacement watch: the Cosmonaute, which was inspired by Carpenter's suggestion that for space flight, a watch with a 24 hour scale would be more useful.  However, his original Navitimer went missing, and whether it was accidentally discarded, or is still sitting somewhere in a forgotten cabinet, box, or closet at Breitling, no one seems to know.

Santos-Dumont's Cartier Santos-Dumont

Another great story to which we'd love to be able to attach a watch.  The Cartier Santos-Dumont watch supposedly came about as a result of pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont's complaint to his friend Louis Cartier that a pocket watch was impractical when piloting an aircraft. That seems indisputably true, and it also is indisputably true that there would have been very little reason to name the watch after Santos-Dumont if Santos-Dumont had not had some pretty close relationship to the genesis of the watch.  The Santos-Dumont was originally retailed by Cartier in 1911, and according to Cartier the first prototype was made for Santos-Dumont in 1904 but no one knows what happened to it.  Santos-Dumont's later life was difficult due to ill health; eventually he left Paris and returned to his native Brazil.  It seems likely that if the watch survives, it's somewhere in São Paulo, where, suffering from illness and severe depression, he committed suicide in 1932.

Thor Hyderdahl's Eterna

This one should be marked "provisional" because although it's widely been repeated that the famous ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl wore an Eterna watch on his 1947 journey across the Pacific, on a balsa-wood raft, it's never been proven conclusively that that was in fact the case.  The journey was undertaken as an attempt to demonstrate the plausibility of Heyerdahl's theory that Polynesia had been colonized by travelers from South America. He would later go on to attempt to prove a similar theory about the colonization of South America by Africans, by sailing a papyrus reed boat – the Ra – across the Atlantic.  While both voyages were successful, his theories remain controversial (modern DNA studies, however, suggest that he may have been onto something).  The Eterna Kontiki watch came out in 1958, and again, it seems unlikely that Eterna would have given the watch that name, and used Heyerdahl's expeditions in its marketing, were the connection not legitimate.  However, we've been unable to find any direct evidence that Heyerdahl's watch was an Eterna – or any record of its fate.

Any readers with any info on any of these, don't hesitate to let us know in the comments!

Check out our (very) in-depth coverage of the Lindbergh Hour Angle here. Our coverage of the 2013 50 Fathoms Tribute is here. And if you'd like to see some more lost treasures, check out our coverage of 12 Of The Greatest Missing Watches Of All Time.

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Historical Perspectives: (Possibly) The World's First Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch, From Breguet, Revisited On Leap Day 2016

It’s quite simply one of the most important vintage wristwatches ever made by Breguet, on account of it being – possibly – the first instantaneous perpetual calendar movement made for a wristwatch. Here is the "Dollfus" Perpetual Calendar, nicknamed after its original owner – sold at auction in 2011, and not seen in public since.  Though it's well known in enthusiast circles both by name – both the nickname, and its reference, Breguet 2516 – and reputation, we thought today – Leap Day – would be a great opportunity to look back at this historic watch.When this particular watch was first sold, the price to the new owner, Mr. Jean Dollfus, was 11,000 Swiss Francs.  It was a lot of money then, and today it would be considerably more, but even the inflation adjusted price pales in comparison to what it fetched at auction at Christie's, in 2011: $475,618.  It's obviously an enormous sum of money, but the price becomes easier to understand, when you understand what the watch represents.

It's quite simply one of the most important vintage wristwatches ever made by Breguet, and perhaps the single most important perpetual calendar wristwatch ever made, on account of it being – possibly – the first instantaneous perpetual calendar movement specifically made for a wristwatch.  Patek Philippe, we should mention, did sell an instantaneous perpetual calendar much earlier – it was sold to Thomas Emery, in 1925 – but that watch used a movement, no. 97975, which had originally been made in the late 19th century as a ladies' pendant watch movement; it's now in the Patek Philippe Museum. The Patek shows that the technology existed much earlier than the 1920s and 1930s to make a wristwatch perpetual calendar; the movement in it was quite small at only 12 lignes.  But it was left to Breguet to make an instantaneous perpetual calendar for the first time, specifically with a movement designed for a wristwatch. .

The movement in the Breguet wristwatch, no. 2516, is even smaller than that in the Patek. According to Christie's auction notes, this is a 10 ligne movement (about 22.5mm) with 18 jewels, a bimetallic compensating balance, Breguet balance spring (naturally) and a full suite of perpetual calendar indications, including the phase of the moon.  All the indications jump instantly at midnight, which was a remarkable achievement even in earlier pocket watch perpetual calendars; all the more so in a wristwatch.

A first in a watchmaking industry, it also set the tone in terms of aesthetics. Displayed on a silvered matte dial, underneath an aperture for moon phases, the calendar functions lend the watch – otherwise a fine example of Breguet’s Art Deco period – a remarkably contemporary feel.  

Of course, this isn't the only amazing early Breguet perpetual calendar we've looked at on HODINKEE.  In our Talking Watches episode with John Goldberger, he showed us a truly incredible vintage Breguet perpetual calendar wristwatch, seen below.  This is what we had to say about it then:

"There is special, and then there is special. This is a Breguet wristwatch (keep in mind, there aren't many of those from the 20th century that weren't pilot's chronograph) that dates to 1936. Not only that, but it's a perpetual calendar. Actually, it's a unique, rectangular white gold perpetual calendar with retrograde date. This watch is also a world premiere here on HODINKEE and even Breguet themselves don't know about this one. It is one of three vintage retrograde perpetual calendars (period, from any brand of the 20th century) – and the other two are round and sit in the Patek and Breguet museums, respectively."

Born into a prominent Parisian family, Jean Dollfus and his brother Louis owned a number of highly complicated pocket watches from Breguet, and would have been on the manufacture’s VIP list when the movement was in development. However, there seemed to be no competition in this fraternity.  The Dollfus family were extremely enthusiastic Breguet clients – Breguet archives mention nine watches sold to Jean and Louis Dollfus between 1922 and 1934, and their purchases included a tourbillon pocket watch, a repeater, and a carriage clock with astronomical indications (among other things).  Another purchase made by the Dollfus brothers is shown below: a chronometer escapement pocket watch with Guillaume balance, which achieved a price of $150,386 at Christie's in 2008. .

Call it brotherly love, but this exceptional timepiece was bought selflessly by Jean Dollfus as a gift to congratulate his brother Louis on recording 500 hours of flight time – the final requirement to receiving a pilot license in France at the time.  Engraved at the back are words of congratulations from Jean to his younger brother: “Souvenir de Jean Dollfus à son frère Louis pour ses 500 heures de vol décembre 1933,” (“Token from Jean Dollfus to his brother Louis for his 500 hours of flight time December 1933").

Louis was the kind of guy you see in the movies: A one-time 24 Hours of Le Mans participant, and a collector of all things mechanically powered, including high-end complications, aircrafts, and sports cars. Remind you of anyone?Perpetual Calendars have become such a common sight; it’s easy to forget they were worn in pockets, not on wrists, less than 100 years ago.

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Your Official HODINKEE Leap Day Perpetual Calendar Buyer's Guide

Today, as you surely know, is leap day – February 29th. You know this because that one guy in your life who spent his life's savings on a perpetual calendar can't stop talking about it. The perpetual calendar is an amazing complication – able to account for not only the varying lengths of your average 12 months – but also for leap years. The perpetual is, in my experience, the grand complication that gets the most people excited about mechanical watchmaking can do and today, in honor of that, we're going to look at a few of our favorite perpetuals currently on the market, and what makes them so special.

For The Clacissist

1. Patek Philippe 5140 – Patek Philippe invented the serially produced perpetual calendar wristwatch, so it's no mistake that the heir apparent to the most beautiful watches ever be included in this list. The 5140 is a round, 38mm perpetual calendar based on the legendary 240Q movement. While purists are quick to say it's no 3940 – notice the larger bezel and enormous-for-Patek-Philippe-but-tiny-for-anyone-else font – there is no denying the pure, elegant excellence of the 5140. Oh, and you can still buy it brand new. More here.

2. Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Perpetual Calendar – If the 5140 doesn't strike your fancy, Vacheron offers an excellent alternative in their patrimony perpetuals. The history here isn't quite as lengthy, at least in wristwatch form, but VC was a famous innovator in calendar functions in early 20th pocket watches. This is just a wonderful watch. More here.

For The Modern Thinker

1. A. Lange & Sohne Langematik Perpetual – The Langematik, in particular in white gold with a black dial, is a much more modern feeling QP than those from either PP or VC, but has just the build quality and frankly, super legibility thanks to that outsize date. You can't go wrong here. More here.

2. FP Journe Octa Quantième Perpétuel – Oft discussed, rarely seen, the Octa perpetual offers that wonderful Journe profile and attention to detail with a few technical tricks like instaneous jumps, big date displays, and a hidden corrector under the lug. More here.

For The Minimalist

1. H. Moser Endeavour Perpetual Calendar – One of the downright coolest perpetual calendars in the world, and one that we have immense respect for. This QP is the work of Mr. Andreas Strehler, and Moser has been subtly tweaking this modern classic for the past few years. Check it out here.

2. Ochs & Junior Annual Calendar – OK fine, this isn't a perpetual calendar, but this annual calendar is so damn cool we had to include it. Not sure who Ochs & Junior is? Watch this, then read more here.

For The Weekend Warrior

1. Any IWC Perpetual Calendar, Really – The Kurt Klaus engineered perpetual calendar from IWC is a true modern classic, and was the first integrated QP to be able to be set via just the crown. It's a little bulkier than some other QPs, and boy, if you go past the date you intended to, are you in for it, but this is a fantastic watch in no matter what case you chose. My favorite is the white gold portugese with blue dial but for something entirely different, you can also do it in a Big Pilot.

2. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual – Relaunched late last year, the Royal Oak perpetual is a classic and one of the most versatile really high end watches in the world. Read about it here, and extra points for anyone who rocks it in yellow gold.

For "That Guy"

1. The MB&F LM1 Perpetual – MB&F is loved by all, but when they showed this amazing perpetual calendar this fall, my hard-core, high-end friends seemed to say "Ok, now we not only do we love you, but we really, really respect you". There isn't a perpetual like this in the world, and come on, look at it.

2. JLC Master Grande Tradition Tourbillon Cylindrique à Quantieme Perpetual – Longest, most difficult to prounce name in the history of perpetual calendars, but that doesn't mean it's a bad watch. In fact, it's an amazing watch. This bad boy features a cylindrical tourbillon with full perpetual AND active zodiac sign display. More here.

For The QP Cognoscenti

1. Ulysse Nardin – the GMT +/- Perpetual.  Ulysse Nardin's justly famous for the Freak but it also produced, back in 1996, one of the most technically innovative of modern perpetual calendars.  The Perpetual Ludwig, as it was called when it was launched, was nothing less than the first perpetual calendar that could be adjusted entirely from the crown either forwards or backwards, making it the most user-friendly perpetual ever made.  The GMT +/- Perpetual combines the mechanism of the original Perpetual Ludwig with a GMT hand, which can be set forwards or backwards in one hour increments, with the perpetual calendar indications all remaining snychronized to show the correct date and time in your current time zone.  An amazing technical achievement, available today in a wide range of designs and looks; check them all out, from Ulysse Nardin, here.

2. Cartier – the Astrocalendaire.  The Cartier Astrocalendaire is one of the most unusual perpetual calendars out there.  LIke the Perpetual Ludwig, it is one of the very, very few perpetual calendar watches that can be set either forwards or backwards, with all indications staying coordinated, using just the crown.  To do this it uses a system of stacked wheels with moveable teeth that, while it's got some conceptual similarities to the Perpetual Ludwig, also has a number of unique technical features.  One of these is the calendar display, which consists of three nested circles at different levels, surrounding a central flying tourbillon.  There's really nothing else quite like it; check out our previous coverage of this watch right here, and see it online from Cartier for more details here.

A Week On The Wrist: The Zenith El Primero Reference A3817

If you have been following HODINKEE, you might agree with us that Zenith is a manufacturer that produces some of the more value-for-money watches these days. There are few totally in-house chronograph movements that can be had for just around $10,000, and which come in such a variety of dial and case designs ranging from sporty, to totally classic, to something in-between. Most modern watch collectors would probably also recognize the distinctive tri-color dial, especially with the recent lineup of watches such as the Zenith El Primero 36,000 VPH or El Primero Original 1969. And as most of you might know, the tri-colored dial originates from the Zenith El Primero ref A386, a watch produced in 1969 with the (arguably) first high-beat automatic chronograph.

But did you know that the reference A386 was not the only watch in the El-Primero family with the tri-color dial? There was one other, less well known cousin to the ref A386, which has a more interestingly designed tri-colored dial: the El Primero reference A3817.

While I've owned a few vintage Zenith pieces, I’ve personally never had much wrist time with an El Primero (even though I have previously owned one – more on that later). That changed recently when I got to spend about two weeks with this particular watch.

In a sentence, I think it's pretty awesome.

El Primero (Literally, 'The First') Self-Winding Chronograph

If you remember our article from a while back on the Heuer Monaco, you'll recall we dug deep into the history of the Heuer Caliber 11 and told you why there are different opinions on who actually produced the first self-winding chronograph. While Zenith may have first announced the movement and a few prototypes in January of 1969, Heuer is arguably the first to make it to global production in August of 1969. And in the midst of all of that, Seiko is said to have released their version of the automatic chronograph as early as May 1969, but only for the Japanese market. The history and discussions are well documented, and you can see a good in-depth article called Project 99 by Jeff Stein here.

But there is little question that Zenith’s El-Primero 3019PHC movement could be considered the most technically advanced of the three. It was a completely integrated movement, as compared to the Caliber 11, which consisted of a Dubois-Depraz chronograph module mated with a base movement from Buren. It also featured a seconds, hour, and minute counter and the date function, as compared to the Seiko 6139, which had neither an hour nor continuous seconds counter (though it did possess the day function – and let's not forget that the 6139 was also the first automatic chronograph with vertical clutch). Back in the day, the El Primero also was a movement used by many other manufacturers, including Rolex and Movado. And it is a movement still used today in many of Zenith's watches, with only a few modifications since 1969 (Caliber 11, and the 6139 are both long gone). All in all, this is pretty impressive movement, to say the least.

A Week On The Wrist

Now that we've covered a bit of history on the movement, how does the watch wear on the wrist?

Before everything else, this is a sizeable watch. While not on the level of modern Zeniths, the A3817 measures 37 mm excluding the crown but is 47 mm from lug to lug because of the design of the case. It is slightly smaller in width than the ref A386, which measures 38 mm excluding the crown, but having worn both I feel the A3817 actually feels more substantial on the wrist. This is a watch that is sizeable, especially by vintage standards, yet it sits very well on the wrist and fits under the cuff with no issues at all. That is because of the 6.6 mm height of the movement; in comparison, the Caliber 11 movement is ~7.7 mm tall.

The case itself takes elements from both the ref A386 and ref A78x family. It is still somewhat tonneau shaped, but is a lot more angular than the ref A78x (the A3817 actually has visible lugs, for instance). The edges on the case are distinct and sharp, similar to the ref A386. The surface of the steel case also has a brushed finish, which lends it an interesting look.

The case design was an unexpected, but pleasant surprise. It departs from a 'typical' case design (such as in the A386), which usually has a circular and symmetric center that envelops the dial. At the same time, it is not too funky, in comparison to the case design of the ref A781/2/3 family. I used to own a ref A783 - now that was a chunky watch. It felt like I was wearing a block of metal on my wrist, and as a result that watch never really got much wrist time despite the amazing El Primero movement that beat inside. The ref A3817 is a nice balance between the two: innovative, different, but still sleek; retaining a classic elegance with a dash of eccentricity.

And of course, like the A386, the A3817 has the distinctive tri-color dial. But the A3817 gets more creative with a very unique blue sub-seconds hand on the 9 o'clock sub-dial, which is also painted with blue indices. The A386, in comparison, has all sub-dials painted with white indices with uniformly white hands.

As a note, these watches typically came with a hand in a lighter shade of blue than the example in this article (see the picture above on the left). Initially I thought the sub-seconds hand on my watch might have been a replacement, but after searching around I've come across quite a few watches with the same dark-blue hands. The darker hand is also slightly thinner, and some of the examples I've seen with the darker hand have the set of all three sub-dial hands just slightly thinner than its counterparts with the lighter blue hand – which again might suggest that the hands are not individually replaced, but rather come as a set.

The watch further features a red paddle hand, which can be found in many of the El Primero chronographs made by Zenith in this era. Of note is the white dial surrounded by a grey ring, which displays both a tachymeter and a Base 15 pulsations scale – which are seen also on some other references, such as the ref A3818 and A788.

The indices also have an interesting pyramidal shape, which I believe is only limited to the A3817 and A3818 in the family of El Primero chronographs (though there are a few non-chronograph Zenith watches which have it, such as the Autosport Luxe). At every 5 minute mark is an applied metal marker with a stripe of lume down the middle, something we see in other El Primero references as well.

Note that this reference should come with a signed crown and case back.

The "SP 1301" engraved on the inside of the case back is a reference to the type of the case (produced by Spillman – hence SP). There are a few variations (SP 1205 and SP 1301-1, for instance) for different models in the El Primero family.

Again, recall that this movement beat at 5hz (36,000 beats per hour), which means that it could have a measurement accurate to one-tenth of a second. This is in comparison to most chronographs of that era, which beat at 2.5hz and could only measure to one-fifth of a second. The video below (in slow motion) compares the El Primero 3019PHC with a Gallet Multichron powered by the Valjoux 72. Notice that the El Primero beats exactly twice as fast as the Valjoux 72.

The date window is at roughly 4-5 o’clock. The date, in this movement, switches instantaneously, and if you blink you just might miss it.  (Hint: it takes place just before the sub-seconds hand reaches the 5 second mark.)

This watch would have originally come on a Zenith ladder bracelet (with either ZK or ZKM endlinks). I recently had the chance to purchase one from a friend and he was gracious enough to let me try it on. In comparison, I have to say the strap felt a lot more comfortable. While wearing the A3817 on a bracelet is probably the "original" way to wear the watch, I honestly preferred the leather strap just from a comfort perspective (and I thought the bracelet looked a bit fragile to be honest). I decided to stay with the leather strap.

The ref A3817 was roughly 30 seconds fast after a week on the wrist – which is not bad at all for a vintage watch. Remember, the El Primero beats twice as fast as most other vintage watches (18,000 vph vs. 36,000 vph) and thus should, all other things being equal, offer better rate stability. A slower beat classic chronograph movement like a Valjoux 72 should theoretically not perform as well as a faster beat movement, but in practice whether that's true will probably depend more on how recently, and just as importantly, how well, the watch was serviced, adjusted and regulated.

Tips For Collectors

One important thing for collectors to note: these cases frequently come very heavily polished. The example that is shown here has likely been polished once, but fortunately still retains most all of the characteristics of the original case. One thing to look out for is some amount of clearance between the upper and lower edges of the crystal and the straight edges of the case. Watches that have the edge of the case immediately meeting the lower or upper edges of the crystal are likely to be heavily polished, regardless of finish or sharpness of the lines.

The paint is also notoriously flaky on the hands – notice the same flakiness on the watch presented. Finally, the lume on the paddle hand also seems to fall off surprisingly often – again something to watch out for.

About 1,000 pieces of the ref A3817 were produced, in comparison to around 2,500 pieces for the ref A386, which makes the A3817 significantly rarer. While prices for Zenith ref A386s have been climbing significantly over the past few years, and you probably wouldn't be able to find a good example for anything less than $10,000, the A3817 can typically be found at some discount. A decent example might be found for less than $8,000, perhaps adding on $500 to $1,000 for examples with a bracelet. For instance, we contacted the seller of this example in pretty decent condition (except for the sweep seconds hand) and learned that it sold for around $8,500. That said, prices seem to be steadily catching up to the ref A386, so we suggest getting one soon if you can.

Final Thoughts

Overall the Zenith El Primero reference A3817 was a pleasant surprise, and a very fun watch to wear. It definitely added some color to my outfit, especially since most of the vintage watches I own have at most two-tone dials. The tri-colored dial of this particular reference adds a casual and fun feel, and is balanced nicely by the larger case. I honestly didn't expect the angular tonneau-shaped case to grow on me, but it did. The watch is both elegant and quirky, and you see that design philosophy embedded in both the dial and case.

For me personally, the final verdict isn't out yet. I'll know in about a month when I arrive in Paris (where my girlfriend currently is). Stay tuned.

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You're Invited: Celebrate Leap Day With The 'Dink In NYC

February 29th is a big day in the world of #watchnerds. Why? Because it's the one day every four years where we can turn to our non watch-nerd friends, say "hey, check this out!" – point to our wristwatch, and actually have them be impressed. OK so the above may only apply to those lucky enough to own a perpetual calendar, but still, this complication is one of the most beautiful, difficult to produce, but easy to understand in the realm of true grand complications. So this day, on the only February 29th to come this way for the next 1,459 days, we've decided to get some people together for a few cocktails to toast the perpetual calendar. Details after the jump.

Come Celebrate Leap Day With HODINKEE In NYC

What: A casual get-to-together for all watchnerds of all sizes, in honor of leap day. Bring your perpetual calendars if you have one, if not, bring whatever you'd like to share.

Where: Someplace in downtown NYC - details will be emailed privately for security's sake.

Who: Anyone who wants to spend a Monday night talking about watches with me and the rest of team HODINKEE

When: We'll say 6:30 onwards. Not sure how late things will go, but figure we'll be there for a little while. We're talking Monday, Feb 29th, of course.

How: Email us at events@hodinkee.com and let us know your name and contact info. Once we have an accurate head-count, we'll email everyone with location details.

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