Longines Spirit 40mm L3.810.4.93.0 Watch Review
Longines, the Company
Longines has a long-established history of producing luxury yet affordable, Swiss-designed and manufactured watches. First established in 1832 by a professional Swiss watchmaker, Auguste Agassiz, the company developed over the years as a family-run and owned business, incorporating new and innovative award-winning methods and machinery to produce ever-evolving watch mechanisms and styles, all of the highest standard.
In 1867, the first Longines watch factory was purchased in St. Imier, Switzerland (Long Meadows). The company exerted continual efforts to ensure technical and mechanical development of its Swiss quality movements, updated designs, and superior mechanisms. The legendary aviation pilot who crossed the Atlantic in 1927, Charles Lindbergh, collaborated with Longines to create the pioneering Hour Angle watch. Longines still retains its logo, the traditional winged hourglass design, which is now over 120 years old.
The Spirit Collection was inspired by flight and land travel legends, such as Lindbergh, Earhart, Heinmuller, Victor, Smith, Van Horn Weems, and Piccard. The early pioneers of travel had limited equipment to rely on, and they depended on their winged hourglass watches to provide them with vital information on their travels. The Spirit Collection is a testimony to these original heroes, incorporating timeless elegance and quality with some of the most updated, modern watches on the market.
The company, Longines, began by using the slogan, "The World's Most Honored Watch.” It then incorporated the slogan in the year 1999, "Elegance is an Attitude.” Longines watches remain, to this day, sought-after timepieces.
The Watch
Capture the early pioneering spirit with the elegant, sporty, pilot-looking Longines Spirit 40mm L3.810.4.93.0 men’s watch. It has a 40 mm round, blue sunray dial with Arabic numerals and the imprinted Longines classic logo. The watch face is made from anti-reflective scratch-resistant sapphire. The useful watch face size of 40 millimeters ensures a comfortable diameter for men’s wrists of average size. The case material is made from high-quality stainless steel, with a fixed bezel and screw-in crown. The watch is water-resistant to a depth of 100 meters (10 ATM).
The elegant strap is 21 mm in diameter, made of blue calfskin leather with a tang buckle for easy closure and comfort. Longines uses only the finest hand-processed leather, which is not sourced from protected animal species, in compliance with Switzerland’s international conventions. Longines watch straps undergo a rigorous in-house testing process to ensure they are smooth, evenly colored, and robust. Incorporating a leather strap into the Spirit L3 ensures comfort, durability, and eye-catching, warm blue color.
The numerals are luminous, and the hours and minute hands are large and luminous, making the display easy to read. There is also a date display at 3 o'clock. The watch has a Longines Caliber L888 movement and beats at 25,000 vph, and it has an approximate power reserve of 64 hours. This beautiful watch is also practical and offers water resistance up to 100 meters. It also houses an extra-special feature, the COSC certified chronometer.
Under the Hood
The L888 movement that the Longines Spirit 40mm L3.810.4.93.0 utilizes comes from the Longines group’s in-house manufacturer, ETA. This movement is part of the most up-to-date and efficient movements in the world for guaranteed precision and precision enhancement.
Using only top quality, hand-crafted, and polished blue sapphire for the watch face ensures acid-resistance and scratch-proofing. And, of course, sapphire is so beautiful and luminous to behold. Only a diamond can be used to scratch sapphire due to its inherent hardness.
The Longines Spirit 40mm L3’s chronometer is officially stamped on the watch face. The certification comes from COSC, an independent, neutral governing authority. The actual COSC certificate can be independently obtained.
All Longines watches are approved under the ISO 22810 standard criteria for establishing water resistance. This is, of course, a recommendation that cannot be entirely simulated under laboratory conditions.
Conclusion
The Longines brand of watches offers timeless elegance and design and reliability and expertly-constructed timepieces. The Spirit Collection truly captures the enigma and timelessness of never-aging quality and beauty of form.
The Longines Spirit 40mm L3.810.4.93.0 will make a valuable and long-lasting addition to any connoisseur collection of luxury watches, much prized for its contemporary clean, sporty good looks and class. Longines stands by their good name in the trade for producing top quality, individual, recognizable watches. This Longines Spirit 40mm L3.810.4.93.0 timepiece will surely meet and exceed your expectations.
