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Ninety Years Ago Today, Longines Changed the Chronograph

by Brent Robillard Ubiquity breeds familiarity The most successful watchmaking inventions often become so commonplace that we forget they were inventions at all. The rotating dive bezel. The GMT hand. The automatic winding rotor… The flyback chronograph falls squarely into that category. Today, if you spend enough time around pilot’s watches or military chronographs, you’ll eventually encounter the term. Most enthusiasts know what a flyback … Continue reading Ninety Years Ago Today, Longines Changed the Chronograph

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Hanhart x Gentry Labs Red Lion Mk II

By Brent Robillard When History Learns a New Trick Every Hanhart chronograph tells a story, but some feel as though they’re in conversation with their own past. The new Red Lion Mk II—a 200-piece collaboration with TGV of The Urban Gentry and his design studio, Gentry Labs—is exactly that kind of watch. It isn’t a remake or a reissue; it’s a thought experiment made metal: … Continue reading Hanhart x Gentry Labs Red Lion Mk II

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Hands-On with the New Longines Spirit Pilot and Spirit Pilot Flyback

by Brent Robillard First in Flight When I saw Longines’ 2025 novelties earlier this year in New York, two pieces stood out immediately—the new Spirit Pilot and the Spirit Pilot Flyback. That’s no small statement in a year that also gave us a white-dial Legend Diver and the evocative Spirit Zulu Time 1925 (which I now own). But if the Zulu Time carried forward Longines’ … Continue reading Hands-On with the New Longines Spirit Pilot and Spirit Pilot Flyback

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