Longines

Longines has a long connection with aviation and the people who helped develop flight. For nearly a century, its watches have accompanied explorers in the air. Today, the company continues this connection through its Spirit and Heritage collections. These include pilot watches and chronographs that bring older aviation watch features together with modern watchmaking technology.

Longines Spirit and Pilot Watches

The Longines Spirit collection draws on the people who explored aviation and helped move it forward.

Its Spirit Chronograph models use design features taken from aviators' watches. They also include modern technology and movements certified as chronometers by COSC.

The Spirit Flyback is another aviation-related chronograph. It takes traditional features from pilots' watches and applies them to a modern model.

Longines also offers the Spirit Pilot, a watch line made specifically around the pilot theme.

These models give aviation fans different ways to choose a watch connected to the history of flying.

Aviation Models in the Heritage Collection

Longines has aviation watches outside the Spirit collection.

The Longines Pilot Majetek is part of the Heritage range. The company also has a Heritage subcategory called Avigation.

These watches reflect the company's continued interest in aviation watch design.

Longines has worked with explorers of the air for nearly a century. Its current pilot watches keep that connection visible through their names, chronograph functions, and design.

The combination of aviation history and modern movements is an important part of the company's watch range.

Movements and Watch Technology

Longines uses silicon balance-springs in all its automatic watches.

Silicon has several properties that make it useful inside a watch movement. It is lightweight and resistant to corrosion. It also handles changes in temperature and exposure to magnetic fields.

Longines provides a five-year warranty for models equipped with these movements.

The company has also developed technology to protect watches from water and unwanted changes to their settings.

In 1937, Longines introduced the first chronograph with water-resistant pushers. It patented this design in 1938.

These developments form part of the company's wider work in mechanical watchmaking.

Other Collections and Watch Features

Longines also makes watches designed for activities outside aviation.

The Legend Diver was originally developed for underwater exploration. It has two crowns and an internal rotating bezel.

Longines developed the internal bezel position to protect settings from shocks and unwanted movement.

The company introduced its first dive watch in 1958. The Legend Diver collection has been part of its watchmaking history since 1959.

Today, the Legend Diver comes in different sizes, materials, and colours. It also uses Longines movements fitted with silicon balance-springs.

For pilots and aviation enthusiasts, Longines offers a connection between early flight and current watch technology. The Spirit, Spirit Flyback, Spirit Pilot, and Pilot Majetek models are natural starting points for anyone interested in its aviation watches.