The Longines File Heritage continues the celebrations

Longines is celebrating 190 years of watchmaking with a collection of very good watches. Initially, we had the return of the Longines UltraChron, an iconic high-frequency watch. Then shortly after the summer season, the refined Longines Grasp Assortment A hundred and ninetieth Anniversary was launched. To as soon as extra convey consideration to the celebration of just about two centuries, Longines has simply pulled the covers of a somewhat dashing retro chronograph. Generally known as the Longines File Heritage, a part of the brand new File assortment, it showcases a really tasty retro design that appears to come back straight out of the Nineteen Forties or Nineteen Fifties. And as soon as once more, it reaffirms Longines’ wonderful means to look into its archives and choose some very high-quality watches as inspiration for its present-day portfolio!

Longines was based by Auguste Assasiz in 1832, which is not any shock for individuals who already did the maths based mostly on the A hundred and ninetieth anniversary talked about within the intro. The winged hourglass producer can look again on a protracted and storied historical past, with numerous iconic watches and monumental achievements. The corporate has shut ties to aviation, horse racing and different forms of sports activities timing. A part of the Swatch Group since 1983, the model is now recognized for producing wonderful watches at a comparatively attainable value and has a profound knack for vintage-inspired designs.

The comparatively easy chrome steel case measures 40mm in diameter and tops out at 13.80mm in peak. Though barely on the thicker aspect of issues, the peak remains to be fairly acceptable given the domed sapphire crystal and comparatively thick motion inside. The Longines File Heritage has a sophisticated rounded bezel, with polished sections on prime of the lugs and pushers and brushed case sides. The pushers to start out, cease and reset the chronograph have an oval form to them, with a knurled crown in between to set and wind the motion. The see-through caseback is stamped with the watch’s particulars as ordinary.

Paying homage to the glory days of mechanical chronographs, the matte black dial has the standard design of the Nineteen Forties and Nineteen Fifties. On the outer perimeter sits a gilt tachymeter scale mixed with a minutes/seconds monitor. The utilized hour indices are a mixture of baton markers and Arabic numerals. The leaf-shaped central hour and minute fingers are gilt, as are the remainder of the fingers (small seconds, central chronograph seconds, chronograph 60-minutes). The subdials have a concentric sample with gilt bevels and scales. Simply above the central axis for the fingers sit the winged hourglass emblem and the Longines title, with “Computerized Chronometer” slightly below.

Beneath the sapphire crystal caseback sits the Longines Calibre L895.4 chronograph motion. This was additionally used within the Heritage Traditional Tuxedo Chronograph, a watch we included in our collection of the very best chronograph watches of 2020, the 12 months it was introduced. Constructed by ETA and internally also referred to as the ETA A31.L21, it comes as commonplace with an anti-magnetic silicon steadiness spring. The modular development makes use of a purpose-built module on prime of an ETA 2892 and is utilized by Longines just for its heritage chronographs, together with this new one. A selected trait of this motion is the spacing of the subdials. It makes use of 37 jewels and runs at a frequency of 28,800vph, and delivers a really nice energy reserve of 59 hours.

The brand new Longines File Heritage chronograph is worn on a cognac-coloured brown leather-based strap with a metal pin buckle, or alternatively on a stainless-steel multi-link bracelet with a folding clasp and brushed and polished end. Retailing for EUR 3,160 in both configuration (which is surprising, given the same old premium for bracelets) it’s now a part of the everlasting assortment.

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