Explore the Longines collections

Longines: Elegance, tradition and performance. Fields have an extensive selection of both Ladies and Men’s Longines watches from various collections of luxury timepieces.

Longines Watches

Longines is a Swiss watchmaker that’s been making prestige timepieces for just shy of two centuries. The brand has been closely associated with sporting elegance since its inception and enjoys a distinguished reputation as timekeeper at many high-profile sports events like the French Open, the Commonwealth Games, the Formula One World Championship, and the Breeders’ Cup. In the pioneering days of manned flight, Longines designed a watch with Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927.
Aviation remains a strong influence on the brand’s styling to this day. With the motto “Elegance is an attitude”, Longines has recruited a rollcall of famous athletes and actors – Andre Agassi, Harry Connick Jr, Stefanie Graf, Kate Winslet and Eddie Peng to name but a few – as its Ambassadors of Elegance. This premier brand is among the more affordable Swiss luxury watchmakers because unlike others, it doesn’t use costly in-house movements. If you opt for Longines, you can own a genuine high-end Swiss watch for a fraction of what you might expect to pay.

History of Longines watches

Founded in 1832, Longines gained an early reputation for quality and precision as official timekeeper for horse racing and show-jumping events. This association with the sporting world has grown over the years to encompass tennis, gymnastics, skiing, archery and other sports. Longines’ combination of top-flight technical skills, design ingenuity and business acumen led it to flourish through the early 1900s, with its designs regularly winning prizes at the great World Fairs. In the 1920s, Longines engineers designed aeronautics and navigational instruments for the adventurers pushing new frontiers. 1931 saw the launch of the ultimate aviator’s tool, the Lindbergh Hour Angle watch, which is still produced to this day.

Decades of pioneering research into quartz led to a series of award-winning thin-calibre watches (forerunners of La Grande Classique, an enduringly popular collection) and the Very High Precision calibre used in the Conquest collection. With the renewed popularity of mechanical movements this century, Longines shifted its focus back to more traditional watches, bringing out a number of state-of-the-art chronographs. This brand features ladies’ watches prominently in its collections.