Longines Hydro Conquest

History
Auguste Agassiz, a Swiss luxury watch making pioneer, formed Longines in 1832. Carrying the company’s tradition ahead to enter an athletic luxury division, the HydroConquest collection was launched to overcome all the necessities of the demanding sportsmen and women. This collection blends elegance with a technical innovation in each of its time piece, expanding over the years to include new models in bright vibrant hues. Watches that are offered by this collection feature both fully automatic and quartz movements.

Design
The Longines HydroConquest L3.695.4.19.6 is a sports utility time piece or Diver’s watch for the athletic male watch aficionado. It comes with a uni-directional rotating red toned bezel made of polished steel, with a white lacquered and polished dial. Beautifully crafted with luminous Arabic numerals, this dial offers a contemporary allure. It also possesses Super-LumiNova coated hour and minute hands in silver, with a second’s arm topped by a red arrowhead for perfect legibility even in low light conditions. The outer rim of this dial consists of etched out minute and second marking indexes, enhancing its athletic appearance. This sports watch also offers great scratch resistant qualities thanks to a sapphire crystal finish glass coating over its case window. With a 41mm wide case diameter, this masterpiece holds the bezel with a steel bracelet equipped with a folding clasp to ensure a secure grip on the wearer’s wrist.

Features
The Longines HydroConquest L3.695.4.19.6 features the Swiss made calibre L619 powered self-winding automatic movements for an immaculate timekeeping experience, with a huge power reserve of 42 hours beating at 28,800 vibrations per hour. This watch holds leak-proof durability against water immersion or any other form of liquid contact up to an incredible depth of 300 metres, giving its core elements an isolated environment. With the regular timekeeping functions of hours, minutes and seconds, the watch sports a date display window at 3 o’ clock, supporting every in-depth under aquatic feature even where others fail to prevail.