Longines Conquest V.H.P. GMT Flash Setting Watch Hands-On

With the new Longines Conquest V.H.P GMT Flash Setting, you'll quickly set your watch to the new time zone - a step that takes two quick clicks of the crown somewhere between the aforementioned, resulting in the hands zipping around the dial to the correct hour in admittedly satisfying fashion The hint is right there in the name of the watch itself, "Flash Setting" Spoiler alert: while clever, the VHP.

GMT is not a smart watch by traditional definition - it's 100% analog, with no Bluetooth connectivity at all The speed and ease of setting is only half the story, because the literal interpretation is the actual punchline: the V.H.P GMT Flash Setting lets you synchronize multiple time zones via a smartphone camera flash, which communicates the time to the watch's dial using bursts of light in the form of old-school dots and dashes.

What's particularly cool, is that since the watch saves both times indefinitely, if you're regularly traveling between specific time zones, there's no need to perform the flash setting every time you travel - just two quick clicks of the crown when you land, and the watch does the rest Of course, a traditional time-setting option exists for the purist - the watch can still be set and operated sans-phone via the crown, essentially future-proofing it for operation for as long as the watch is running The new Longines Conquest VHP.

GMT Flash Setting isn't just a groundbreaking release from its novel setting features, it's also an extremely precise watch, maintaining the impressive +/- 5 seconds per year accuracy of the standard thermocompensated V.H.P released in 2017 The dual-timezone feature that's now exclusive to Longines puts this watch in a HAQ league all its own, and adds in a genuinely useful wear experience that should be appreciated by more than those who obsess over accuracy. Source