LONGINES – Skin DIVER Watch

LONGINES – HERITAGE Skin DIVER Watch Stainless Steel 42 mm Automatc

Longines gives new life to its first diver watch by introducing 

The Longines Skin Diver Watch

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In homage to the watchmaking tradition it has carried on for more than 185 years, Longines has chosen to revisit the historical pieces that helped solidify its international reach. Now, the winged hourglass brand is bringing its first diver watch - a 1959 timepiece - back to life.

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The Longines Skin Diver Watch reflects the sleek aesthetic of the original model while offering high-performing, contemporary technical features. This new watch is an enthusiastic tribute to the timelessness of the Saint-Imier watchmaker’s creations and its ability to spotlight history through art and elegance.

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The Longines historic collection regularly serves as the brand’s inspiration for the creation of new models, in particular its Heritage re-editions. Now, Longines is breathing new life into its first diver watch, a 1959 piece that was introduced at a time when water sports were becoming extremely popular.

Reliable and elegant, the model would be a great success among diving enthusiasts. The Longines Skin Diver Watch derives its essence from this emblematic timepiece that made an important mark on the company’s history.

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This new creation preserves the spirit and clean lines of the original model while benefiting from the brand’s watchmaking expertise. It features high-performing, contemporary technical characteristics, such as sapphire crystal, a screwed-in crown and back for water resistance up to 300 metres, and a highly reliable automatic L888 calibre, produced exclusively for Longines.

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The Longines Skin Diver Watch features the sober aesthetic typical of diver watches. Its 42mm steel case is characterised by its striking unidirectional bezel coated in black PVD and enhanced with markers, including a luminescent triangle, which serves as the main indicator for calculating immersion time.

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Its grained black dial, topped with domed sapphire crystal, features indexes, Arabic numerals and hands covered in Super LumiNova® to ensure optimal reading of time in line with the demands of the discipline. Like the original model, a stamped logo illustrating a diver adorns the back of this piece.

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Customers can choose between a black rubber strap with a criss-crossed finish, a Milanese-style steel bracelet, or a natural brown leather strap to complete the look of this characterful watch.

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The Longines Skin Diver Watch will delight fans of water sports who want to wear a high-performing timepiece but refuse to compromise on elegance.
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Technical details

Model: Skin Diver Watch

Reference numbers L2.822.4.56.2/6/9

MovementMechanical self-winding movement
    Calibre L888.2 (ETA A31.L01)
    11½ lines, 21 jewels, 25'200 vibrations per hours
    Power reserve: 64 hours
Functions Hours, minutes and seconds
Case
Round, stainless steel,  42 mm
Unidirectional rotating bezel with black PVD treatment enhanced with indexes,
Arabic numerals and a luminescent triangle at 12 o’clock
Screw-down case back and screw-in crown
Embossed diver symbol on case back
Water-resistance To 30 bar (300 meters)
Dial
Domed grained black dial, 8 indices and 4 Arabic numerals with Super-LumiNova®
Hands    Polished rhodium-plated with Super-LumiNova®
Crystal    Domed sapphire with several layers of anti-reflective coating on both sides
Strap
Milanese stainless steel bracelet with triple safety folding clasp and push-piece opening mechanism
Brown leather strap with diving buckle
Black rubber strap with diving buckle

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For further information please contact:
Longines International Public Relations
2610 Saint-Imier, Switzerland
publicrelations@longines.com
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CHRISTOPHE CLARET – X-TREM-1 – Ultimate Gold-Black Titanium Tourbillon

CHRISTOPHE CLARET – X-TREM-1 – ULTIMATE Red Gold & Black PVD-treated Titanium Flying Tourbillon Edition

The new version X-TREM-1 Ultimate 

watchmaking by Christophe Claret

X-TREM-1 represents a major technical and aesthetic accomplishment: a flying tourbillon inclined at a 30° angle, mounted on a three-dimensional curvex titanium mainplate, equipped with a retrograde hours and minutes display system that is radically different from existing watchmaking conventions.

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Two tiny hollowed steel spheres, isolated within tubes on the left and right sides of the caseband, magically move with no mechanical connection thanks to magnetic fields.

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X-TREM-1, the fi rst model in this new generation of timepieces, represents a major technical and aesthetic accomplishment: a fl ying tourbillon inclined at a 30° angle, mounted on a three-dimensional curvex titanium mainplate, equipped with a retrograde hours and minutes display system that is radically different from existing watchmaking conventions. Two tiny hollowed steel spheres, isolated within tubes, have been placed to the left and right sides of the case and move in a mysterious manner with no mechanical connection thanks to magnetic fi elds

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The hand-wound watch draws its energy from two barrels – a necessity in this case, since they enable the use of a high energy-consuming display mode without disturbing the rate of the tourbillon, and thus that of the watch. The fi rst barrel is reserved for the tourbillon, and the second for the hours and minutes.

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Driven as ever by a determination to present avant-garde timepieces, 5N red gold and black grade 5 PVD titanium were the metals chosen to make the case of this version of the X-TREM-1. The sapphire tubes have been replaced by cylindrical ring-bound tubes housing mobile stainless steel spheres indicating the time.

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This version is produced in an 8-piece limited edition.

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Technical Specifications

X-TREM-1 – Ultimate Red Gold & Black Titanium

Ref. MTR.FLY11.150-158

Movement:
Caliber:  FLY11 - mechanical, hand-wound movement
Dimensions: 26.6 x 46.4 x 11.94 mm
Number of components:    432
Number of jewels:  66
Power reserve: 50+ hours
Dual barrels: one for the movement gear train, one for the time indications
Display-regulation escapement:
The tourbillon movement and the time indication gear trains each
have their own independent energy  supply  to optimize power
distribution and duration
Tourbillon:
-    Swiss lever
-    Frequency: 3 Hz (21,600 vph)
-    Tourbillon rotates once every 60 seconds
-    Flying tourbillon inclined at 30° supported by a double ceramic bearing, with cone-shaped pinion transmission
-    Black chrome-plated aluminum skull with natural red ruby eyes
Functions:
Mystery hours and minutes displayed with indications provided by hollowed steel spheres moving 23 mm inside two cylindrical sapphire tubes.
The metal spheres are driven by magnetic carriages following a thread.
-    Seconds displayed on the tourbillon cage
-    Movement state-of-wind indication
-    Fast time adjustment is via an integrated pusher on the caseband at 12 o’clock
Mainplate:
-    Curvex with sides inclined at a 30° angle
-    Mainplate and bridges in bead-blasted titanium
-    Open-worked ratchet and wheel
Distinctive features:
-    Use of precisely-shaped magnetic fields in a mechanical movement
-    No mechanical connection between the indications and the movement
-    Winding and time-setting via lift-out rotating “bows” on caseback
Case:
Rectangular with curvex profile
Dimensions: 40.80 x 56.80 x 15 mm
Water resistance: 3 ATM / 30 m / 100 ft
Material
5N red gold and black PVD-treated grade 5 titanium with 5N red gold metallized numerals
5N red gold cylindrical ring-bound tubes
Spheres
White chrome-treated stainless steel
Strap
Black alligator strap

Limited Edition of 8 timepieces


Price in Swiss francs (ex VAT): 268’000

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Christophe Claret – Alexandra Beurier
Tel : +41 32 933 80 26
Email : a.beurier@christopheclaret.com
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