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On my short list of watches to one day own.



Thursday June 23, 2016


As a true lover of vintage watches, hearing about a re-edition always brings mixed feelings. Obviously, it is amazing to witness an homage to some beloved classics, and get a watch that might not have the relative frailty of the original. But at the same time, there is often an uncomfortable feeling of incomplete reproduction of the original experience; for instance, the artificial tint of faux patina can never match the actual work of time on the lume. In their freshness, neo-vintage watches can also be perceived as too clinical, with their brand new body and lack of any signs of use. It is with these thoughts in mind that I received the Longines Legend Diver and decided to give it a Week On The Wrist. And so I did, but with a twist: I wished to go beyond the superficial question of resemblance with the vintage model, and make this Longines face all the roughness it was engineered to withstand. Therefore, I wore it for seven full days at sea, where it got its fair share of salt water and sun – with a small group of friends, sailing in the Caribbean.





http://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-lo ... gend-diver

Where are the pics of the watch on his nautical adventure as he and his friends sailed the Caribbean??

Lugs....too....long.

I'm sure these look better in the flesh than they do in pics, but I never got 'em. Longines says old money, class, dressy, black tie. For them to make a dive watch is like Porsche making an SUV!

conjurer wrote:I'm sure these look better in the flesh than they do in pics, but I never got 'em. Longines says old money, class, dressy, black tie. For them to make a dive watch is like Porsche making an SUV!

I won't trade my lone HydroConquest for your sock drawer fulla Orients, pleeb.

(Satire)

Ttt