The World’s Most Accurate Watch. 

What did you do on this project? Are you a chip designer?

Imagine your frnd comes and changes the time

I don't love that the batteries die in less than two years though... But I guess people can decide if that's worth it to them. Seeing a quartz "sweep" is really cool, though.

@@ams914 If you actually listened, you'd know it does not use a battery. 🤦‍♂️

They already kind of have that. but it's pretty rare and unknown. its called The Longines Lindbergh Hour Angle Watch. watch designed by the legendary pilot Charles Lindbergh

Longines is most certainly NOT an entry level brand - this is a very wrong thing to say. Tissot is an entry level brand, not Longines - Longines is a mid level luxury brand.

@@tancreddehauteville764 always someone looking for an argument! I'm sick of the humans that exist on-line

@@PasanJayaweeraYashoda that’s a truly interesting piece. Thank you for mentioning it. Honestly, I don’t much about its history. So a research is due.

@@tancreddehauteville764 I had no intension to offend Longines. My point is that as a brand it’s highly underrated. I hope they’ll be able to change that with the new releases.

ETA does make some quartz movements that are accurate to around ten seconds a year, but I don’t know of anything else Swiss.

Excuse me DarkGamer, I do understand the original architecture of the movement. I happen to think they have made a some very respectable developments to it. 36,000bph, anti-magnetic, improved power reserve and accuracy. My comments about the quality and design also still stand.

Haha. Dark Gamer removed his comment. Clearly realised he was completely off the mark with his comments. 😂

I suspect in this case it is because quartz watches became more accurate over time, no longer be doable with mechanic movements. Remember, Grand Seiko has watches that are only off by +/-10s per year.

Just so! It’s truly a weird phenomena! Technics went through a similar challenge trying to recreate the technology for making the 1200 turntables, which it had discontinued a years ago. Machines, critical documents, and the important know-how of people who manufacture the specialized tools we strap on our risk are lost or break down. Without a thoughtful steward, the old ways are quickly lost, sometimes forever.

@@heiner71 @PC Longines has the VHP which is +/- 5 seconds as well, tied with the Citizen Chronomaster and better than the Grand Seiko. The GS understates its perf but so does Longines and Citizen. It's great to see Longines finally going back to their roots and making watches that actually compete for the title of most accurate watch again, after decades of being subject to the whims of the swatch group. They were extremely innovative in the quartz space before the takeover and it is outrageous that Swatch wouldn't at least try to have them always produce the most accurate quartz watch. The aquisition of Longines by the Swatch group was hostile and intended specifically to brand mechanicals as luxury instead of outdated by simply killing off the high-quality swiss quartz segment despite the fact that it was perfectly profitable. They would have stayed ahead of the Japanese in precision otherwise, and the way Swiss innovation was killed off in the name of marketing was a crime.

@@BosonCollider It seems like the point I tried to make was lost here. The OP stated that "I never understand when someone creates something long ago with less technology around and then struggles to recreate it in a time period FULL of technology." The point I tried to make is that today the quartz movements are so accurate that nobody would be able to create a mechanical movement with the same or better accuracy as the best quartz movements.

Exactly. This is a great looking and spec’d watch, but unless I’m missing something, the original model from DECADES AGO was spec’d to +/- 2 sec per day, and the new 2022 model is only spec’d for -4/+6 sd? There are a quite a few METAS chronometers that meet that same exact spec today, so what exactly makes this the “World’s Most Accurate Watch” ?

I agree, if Longines wants to start playing again with the "Big Boys" they need to pull the brand from the retail shops. They can't sell a " Luxury " brand when it sitting next to a G Shock next to a Casio!

You've definitely hit on a good point here. You can't just make a great watch nowadays, it has to have the desirability of owning the Longines brand. The need to invest in boutiques and using only premium AD's

As an Australian, I never understood these comments. Here, Longines are only sold in mid to high level authorised dealers and boutiques.

My thoughts exactly 💯 cushion cases usually wear smaller I do hope for a lumed seconds hand though on a future variant. I'm between the Longines Ultra chron diver and a Doxa 300 right now both are awesome 👌 😅

@@lonewolfemcquade8133 Yeah true, not all cushion cases, the more edgy, and square, the bigger it looks. But these more rounded ones like the Doxa 300s and these wear quite well. I wouldn't necessarily say small, as a 42.5mm Doxa 300 does not wear small, but it does wear WELL. On most wrists that is, but obviously, it's still a quite chunky toolwatch, so on a very small wrist it may wear big. You gotto try them is the obvious answer for wearability questions.

I picked one up recently and it wears more like a 40mm. Very cool watch

@@michellep2682 Can the movement be serviced by a independent watch maker on the Longines.?

@@lonewolfemcquade8133 I am not sure on that but would assume so. It's not a complicated movement.