8/14/2023 0 Comments Longines master collection review![]() ![]() The movement is visible through the case back. I wasn’t sold on the hands or the dial design, but I really liked the feeling of wearing such an interesting movement. After playing around with the Retrograde functions a bit, I began to appreciate just how sophisticated the watch really is. It would also be great for travelling and tracking different time zones. I liked using the 24-hour indicator to track the home time and, therefore, distinguish between AM and PM. To protect against accidental pressing while bending the wrist, the pusher screws down. My favourite feature is the 24-hour scale because you can advance the hours with a mere press of the pusher at 10 o’clock. I thought I had broken something the first time! After you set the time and push the crown back in, the hands move back to their previous position. Pulling the crown to the last position temporarily sets the indicators (except the running seconds) back to zero. I freaked out the first time I tried to adjust the time, though. Setting the time and displays is time-consuming but pretty straightforward. While wearing the Retrograde, it dawns on you pretty quickly that it is a complex timepiece. In fact, ETA designed the movement exclusively for Longines and it was based on the iconic 7750 calibre. With Longines and the legendary movement-maker, ETA, being part of the SWATCH Group, you would expect the engines in the Retrograde to be an ETA Caliber. I’m telling you, this is a LOT of watch for a piece that costs way less than 10 grand.Īll of these functions require a pretty serious movement. The slender blue hands are probably dainty to allow a proper display of all the functions- if they were thicker, it would clutter the dial, which has a gorgeous guilloche-type finish to it. The retrograde function doesn’t really add anything to the usability of the watch, but it adds complexity and sophistication to the overall experience of wearing it. It’s fun to watch the seconds hand hit 60 and then reset to 0 in the blink of an eye. And all of the additional functions are retrograde, meaning that the hand snaps back after it reaches the end. You have the day in the middle and the date on the right with running seconds at the bottom. On the left, you have a 24-hour time display that can serve as a sort of day/night indicator or it can be set to a different time zone. If Arnie or Sly were going to wear a more formal, elegant timepiece, this would be the one. It looks like a piece of instrumentation off some Victorian-era ship – call it steampunk style. ![]() It is so damn big! It immediately throws you off because it has this really vintage style and delicate little hands (my least favourite feature), but it has this immense wrist presence with large pushers and crowns all over the place. As soon as I strapped on the Retrograde, I knew I was dealing with a different animal. ![]()
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