Available in a range of colour options, this is the Longines Conquest 24 Hours.
It’s a smallish 41mm piece in stainless steel. There’s an AR-coated sapphire crystal and water resistance to 50 meters.
Movement is the automatic ETA Valgranges A07-171 with 24 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 48 hours.
A classic looking Longines piece to celebrate 180 years in the biz.
Classic size too, at 38.5mm – in stainless steel.
It has a sapphire crystal, a sapphire display back and water resistance to 30 meters.
Movement is the automatic Longines caliber L615.3 – based on the ETA 2895-2.
This has 27 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 42 hours.
Dials can be had in black or white lacquer and the strap is black alligator with a steel buckle.
Very nice.
Can we start a pocket watch revival?
That would be pretty cool, don’t you think?
Of course we’d have to also revive waistcoats and top hats :-)
Longines have a long history in pocket watches – with this piece celebrating 180 years in the game.
It mirrors the first pieces produced by Auguste Agassiz.
This particular model has a guilloché back cover. It opens to reveal an engraved case back in gold. The dial is white lacquer and features black painted roman numerals and blued steel hands.
It’s a 56mm piece, in 18kt yellow gold.
Movement is the manual-wind Longines caliber L878.4. This has 17 jewels, beats at 18,000 vph and carries a power reserve of 40 hours.
Nice job Longines on this 180 piece limited edition MonoPusher.
Beautiful, don’t you think?
It’s powered by an in-house automatic caliber L788.2 movement featuring 27 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 54 hours,
The case is 18kt rose gold and measures 40mm.
The crystal is an AR-coated sapphire.
There’s also a sapphire display back and water resistance to 30 meters.
Not a big Longines fanboy generally, but this one’s a winner :-)
It’s been a while since we featured a Longines around these here parts, so let’s put that right shall we?
St. Imier is where Longines started life apparently – hence the name.
It’s a 39mm piece in stainless steel and 18kt rose gold.
You’ll get an AR-coated sapphire crystal, a sapphire display back and water resistance to 30 meters.
Powering the watch is an ETA-exclusive-for-Longines automatic movement – the caliber L688 with 27 jewels and a power reserve of 54 hours.
Hold on .. more Baselworld press releases on the way!
[Press Release] The Longines Column-Wheel Chronograph Record is inspired by a chronograph developed in the 1960’s. This worthy modern heir to former timekeeping instruments has been completely redesigned by the brand and equipped with an exclusive L688.2 column wheel movement.
It is particularly easy to read thanks to its centre seconds hand with a vernier scale at its tip that indicates the time to one eighth of a second on the minute track. A sporty design complements its technical features.
The case, in stainless steel, measures 41mm. It has an AR-coated sapphire crystal and is water resistant to 30 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Longines (in-house by ETA exclusively for Longines) caliber L688.2 with 27 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 54 hours. It is a column-wheel chronograph.
Dials are available in black or white.
Something new in a black or white face from Longines in time for Baselworld – the Master Collection Retrograde Moonphase (*phew*).
The case, in stainless steel, is available in 41mm or 44mm. The crystal is sapphire, as is the display back, and it is water resistant to 30 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Longines caliber L707.2 (base ETA A07L31) with 25 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 48 hours.
Functions are hours and minutes and four retrograde indications (day, date, small seconds and 24-hour second time zone) and moonphase indication (with day/night window).
Available with a stainless steel bracelet or an alligator strap in black or brown.
[thanks to Timezone.com for the tip].
Time’s pretty much up to buy your loved one something for Valentine’s, but last minute inspiration may come in the form of the new Longines DolceVita.
Or you could just get some flowers and chocolates from the petrol station :-)
- Article number: Longines DolceVita steel and rose gold with diamond-set case: L5.155.5.19.7
- Calibre: Quartz movement L178.2 (ETA 960.153)
- Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds
- Case: Ladies’ model 19.80 X 24.50 mm; Rectangular, stainless steel and rose gold, set with 32 diamonds; Top Wesselton VVS (0.269 carat)
- Dial: White with 10 indices and 1 rose Arabic numeral
- Hands: Rose
- Water-resistant: to 3 bar (30 metres)
- Glass: Sapphire
- Strap: Stainless steel and rose gold with folding safety clasp and push-pieces
A bevy of new Longines evidenza variants for you.
First up is the ‘Power Reserve’. This manual-winder features a power-reserve indicator to display the residual energy stored in the mainspring.
The power-reserve design joining the Longines evidenza collection features the 11 1/2-line, 21-jewel L602 caliber selfwinding mechanical movement beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour and providing a power reserve of 42 hours.
It shows the hours, minutes and seconds along with the date, with both its date calendar and the power-reserve indicator positioned at 6 o’clock on the dial.
Next we have the Twin-Aperture Date Calendar. This model displays the date in two rather than a single aperture, improving legibility.
The stainless steel case of the Longines evidenza collection’s double-aperture calendar watch houses an 11 1/2-line, 30-jewel L599 selfwinding mechanical movement beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour and providing a 42-hour power reserve.
Along with the hours, minutes and seconds, its dial very legibly displays the date in a pair of apertures positioned just under 12 o’clock.
Finally, there’s the ‘evidenza Mini’.
Reflecting what Longines believe to be a shift to more petite wristwatches (agree?), a 19.60 x 23.30 mm mini size has now joined the Longines evidenza collection.
Inside its stainless steel case beats a quartz movement.
One design is set with 44 diamonds, no less, endowing a dainty wrist with its dazzling personality.
All come with a choice of silvered or black dials, with painted back Roman numerals on the former and white ones on the latter plus either a brown genuine leather strap.
All Longines evidenza complication designs feature a stainless steel case framing a black or silvered dial inscribed respectively with 12 silver painted Roman numerals and silvered steel hands or 12 blue painted Roman numerals and blued steel hands. All of them can be fitted with either a stainless steel bracelet or a dark brown genuine leather strap.
It’s that time of year when things really ramp up pre a number of key watch shows. In advance of the largest of the lot – Baselworld – Longines have introduced the ‘Twenty-Four Hour’s pilots watch.
In the 1950’s Longines supplied watches to the Swiss national airline, Swissair. These timepieces, which had been developed specifically from the brand’s aviators’ watches, had a very distinctive 24-hour dial. This technical characteristic met the needs of navigators who, at the time, had to determine the position of the aircraft and set up a flight plan. Longines has now re-issued this watch for both historical and functional reasons, as well as for the aesthetic attraction it still holds.
The case, in stainless steel, measures 47.5mm. It has an AR-coated sapphire crystal and an engraved back cover on top of a sapphire display back. It is water resistant to 30 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Longines L704.2 (base Valgranges A07-171) with 24 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 2 days. Functions are hours, minutes, seconds, date, 24-hour circle on dial. This caliber makes one full circle of the dial in 24 hours.
The dial is matte black with 24 white Arabic numerals with Super-LumiNova coating and a Railway track minute circle with date aperture at 3 o’clock. Hands are skeleton pear steel hour-hand with Super-LumiNova coating, skeleton leaf minute-hand with Super-LumiNova coating and stick with drop counterweight seconds hand.
The strap is black alligator with a Longines buckle.
