Longines Conquest Classic

Though perhaps now best known for its association with horse racing, Longines has been a staple of the Swiss watchmaking industry since the mid-19th century, and has gained a reputation for the masterfulness of its design.

After World War II, the manufacture from the ‘long meadows’ sought to stretch its creative and technical muscles, and the Conquest was one way in which Longines achieved such aims. Launched in 1954, it represented a ‘stepping-stone to progress’ for the brand, which had been a well known and much respected name in Swiss watchmaking for over a hundred years. 

The 1950s were a time when many maisons, free from the military contracts that had restricted production, began to experiment and implement new horological innovations. The watches that Longines released following the War reflected the sturdy construction of military watches, but utilized one of the manufacture’s early automatic wristwatch movements, the Calibre 22A, first released in 1946. The Conquest — like the Omega Seamaster, another benchmark of post-war horological design — was Longines’ way of blazing forward to unexplored frontiers while still keeping one foot firmly in the past.

This particular Conquest is a modern incarnation that breaks somewhat with the vintage mold of the original models but nonetheless retains the product line’s elegant proportions and subtleties. Dating to the 2020s, it’s housed in a 34mm stainless steel and gold-colored PVD coating with a sapphire crystal, a smooth PVD bezel, and a signed, screw-down PVD crown. Beneath the crystal is a white mother-of-pearl dial with 11 VS-SI diamond indices, a gold-colored PVD ‘sword’ handset, and a date window at 3 o’clock.

Powered by the quartz Longines L156 movement and paired to a matching, two-tone ‘Oyster’-style bracelet with a triple-safety folding clasp and a push-button opening mechanism, this elegant ladies’ Conquest is ready to hit the town. 

Give it a try and get ready to fall in love!

Founded in 1832 in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, Longines was at the sharp end of the watchmaking spear during the beginnings of modern horology. Constantly innovating, the company devised some of the most important wristwatches of the 20th century. Indeed, by 1919, Longines was the official supplier of timepieces for the International Aeronautical Federation, working to develop highly accurate navigation chronometers for many of the era's great aviation pioneers.
Most famous among Longines' forays into navigation pieces is the Lindbergh Hour Angle watch, a wristwatch designed by famed aviator Charles Lindberg in conjunction with the brand to allow aviators to calculate, with the help of a sextant and a known latitude, their exact geographic location.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, Longines also released a series of stunning time-only watches. Often referred to as “Calatravas” after the iconic model by Patek Philippe, most of these watches had thin stainless steel cases at 32-35mm, standard sizes for the time. Like the Patek Philippe Calatrava, these timepieces were known for their perfect proportions and the elegant simplicity of their designs.

But it wasn’t just time-only watches that drew the attention of clients the world over — particularly in the Americas: The company’s caliber 13ZN, first released in 1936, is widely regarded as one of the finest chronograph movements ever devised by any brand. This development would form the basis of work in sports timing, in which Longines developed timepieces with flyback functionality as well as 1/100th-second counters.

Today, Longines produces a remarkable number of watches annually — over 1.5 million of them — and rakes in over $1B in annual revenue through the sale of everything from simple quartz watches to sophisticated moon phases and chronographs. Incredibly, they produced their 51 millionth timepiece in 2019 and in some ways, it feels like the brand is just getting started.

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