GENTLE STURDINESS
As the collection celebrates its 70th birthday, the brand from Saint-Imier offers three steel models with pastel faces, equipped with a robust self-winding movement and a metal bracelet or rubber strap.
Born in 1954, Conquest is the first Longines watch collection to see its name – and what a name! – trademarked. Today, this rich range of elegant, high-performance products, whose new generation was presented in 2023, celebrates its 70th birthday. Faithful to its watchmaking roots and perfectly in tune with the current trend for versatility that gives a timepiece a true companion function, the Saint-Imier company is offering a version with smaller dimensions and dials dressed in soft hues, ready to take on all the adventures of everyday life.
Cheerful colors such as candy pink, soft green and sky blue adorn the faces of this trio, from the sunray-satin-finished central disk to the azure rim supporting 11 rhodium-plated, faceted hour-markers. Three of these, at 12, 3 and 9 o’clock, are highlighted with Super-LumiNova®, while a window at 6 o’clock displays the date in black on a white background. In the center, a duo of dauphine-style hands and a baton second hand indicate hours, minutes and seconds.
These functions are powered by the L888.5 caliber, an automatic movement with a magnetism-resistant silicon balance-spring that vibrates at a frequency of 25,200 vibrations per hour and provides a substantial 3-day power reserve when fully wound. The 34mm-diameter steel case, water-resistant to a depth of 100m, is fitted with a choice of metal link bracelet with triple safety clasp, or two rubber strands matching the dial and finished with a folding clasp.
