Long experience meets vast expertise: The Longines Master Collection With its long and distinguished traditions, Longines has from the start built its worldwide reputation on timepieces notable as much for their intrinsic quality as for the style and timing of their launch. This is certainly true today of the eight new complication designs composing The Longines Master Collection. They are reaching world markets precisely as consumers signal their clear preference for products that not offer embody genuine value but unmistakable character as well. Generation after generation, watch collections by Longines have invariably managed to charm or to convince or quite often to do both, to the delight of consumers everywhere. Of course nothing less was expected of a watch house whose existence spans three centuries and whose professional expertise is second to none. This expertise, and more, stands behind The Longines Master Collection. Comprising only mechanical watches for men, this collection incorporates expertise going back to the company's early decades, starting with caliber L20A from 1867, fitted in the first pocket watch with subdial for the seconds at 6 o'clock to be wound and set by the crown produced by industrial means. This design was followed in 1878 by caliber L20H, the first single pushpiece chronograph movement, in 1913 by that of the first wrist chronograph with single pushpiece, caliber L13.33, in 1936 by Flyback caliber L13 ZN and finally by caliber L262 for ...
