Longines Master Collection Retrograde - 175-Year-Old Elegance

To mark the 175-th anniversary, the Longines Company has unveiled the watch reflecting the brand's remarkable chorological heritage and continuous striving for elegance. The Longines Master Collection Retrograde is equipped a new automatic mechanical calibre developed exclusively for the Company. The timepiece, representing the flagship model of a collection, has highlighted the horological traditions of the brand.

Over its history, the Longines Company, based in Saint-Imier, has worked hard on perfecting the mechanical time-measurement. A creator of horological movements has also provided its timekeeping creations with a touch of added refinement.

The Longines Company has always perceived elegance as the major principle in both the construction of the watch caliber and in the aesthetic appeal of the final timepeiece. Devoted to the 175 years of its well-maintained watchmaking tradition, today Longines has successfully united its technical and aesthetic heritage in the development of a new flagship watch - The Longines Master Collection Retrograde.

The refined timepiece houses a new ETA developed and produced specially for Longines. The Longines Master Collection Retrograde has joined the collection of sober, elegant watches. It became the heir to the horological past of the company with the winged hourglass.

The Longines Master Collection Retrograde provides a mechanical chorological complication, nevertheless, it is extremely simple to use. The timepiece offers retrograde functions, including day, date, seconds, second time zone on a 24-hour scale, being powered by a movement with automatic rewinding. Besides displaying the time, the Longines watch features a variety of functions - the day's display found at 12 o'clock, a calendar in the right part of the dial, a second time zone presented on a 24-hour scale to the left and a subsidiary seconds hand positioned at 6 o'clock.

The retrograde four functions of the watch imply that the hands that indicate the necessary information instantly fly back to their starting position as soon as they have come to the end of their travel. The seven hands on the dial of the timepiece seem to be dancing in harmony, making this creation a captivating article to acquire.

The Longines Master Collection Retrograde is characterized by the utmost clarity of its dial. It is produced in one version with the four retrograde functions - day, date, seconds, second time zone on a 24-hour scale, housed in a stainless steel case provided with a see-through sapphire crystal case back. The transparent case back allows to rest one's eyed on the decorated movement and the oscillating mass featuring the Longines logo.

The Longines watch is available with the case measuring 41mm or 44mm in diameter. The model embraces the wrist with either a steel bracelet or an alligator leather strap in black or dark brown equipped with and triple folding clasp.

The Longines Master Collection Retrograde is also produced another version provided with power reserve indicator. This variation of the model displays three retrograde functions - day, date, and second time zone on a 24-hour scale.

The timepiece reveals pure design and careful finish. The refinement of the model is reflected through the mixture of polished indices, silvered dial featuring 'barley-corn' decoration and blued hands, the distinction of the traditional horological series named The Longines Master Collection.