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Longines celebrates 70 years of its Conquest Collection with multiple launches

The new releases in the Conquest Collection comes in different size, colours, and materials
With the launch of a new campaign called ‘A Life in a Day’ with ambassadors of elegance Zhao Liying, Bae Suzy, and Barbara Palvin, Longines is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its Conquest Collection, known for its sporty elegance and robustness. Commemorating the occasion are launches in three-hand models in sizes 30mm, 34mm, and 38mm, alongside chronographs models in 42mm. All the latest watches in the collection are equipped with exclusive Longines mechanical movement with a silicon balance-spring and new non-magnetic components. 

Longines Conquest Collection - 30mm, 34mm, and 38mm
Other than their different case diameters, the timepieces also differ in case materials varying from steel or bi-material (with or without diamond set). The 34mm novelties feature green, pink, blue and other colour dials; 30mm versions are available in silver, blue, and white sunray dials; and the 38mm entails silver, green, blue, black or champagne sunray dials. 


The colourful dials of the creations are incorporated with a date window at 6 o’clock and baton-type hour markers—the markers at 3, 9 and 12 o'clock, are applied with Super-LumiNova®. All the models are either finished with stainless steel bracelets or coloured rubber straps. 
The 34mm and 38mm versions are equipped with Calibre L888, while 30mm has Calibre L592 inside, boasting 72 and 45 hours of power reserve respectively. 




Longines Conquest Collection - Chronograph 42mm
There are four new 42mm chronograph models in the line featuring tachymeter bezel and matte dials with blue, green, black, and white counters. The small-second dial is located at 3 o'clock and the 30-minute counter at 6 and 12-hour counter at 9 o'clock. Seen through the transparent caseback is the calibre L898, boasting a 59-hour power reserve. 


All the latest watches in the Conquest Collection are either finished with stainless steel bracelets or coloured rubber straps. The novelties are water resistant up to 100 metres. 

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