Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Longines Heritage Classic “Sector Dial”

In a follow-up to its enduringly popular Heritage 1945 and interesting Heritage Military watches, released in 2017 and 2018, respectively, Longines this fall has opted to release another retro-look timepiece evocative of the 1930s and '40s The new Heritage Classic "Sector Dial" is a modern reissue of a 1934 "Calatrava"-style sector-dial model currently residing in Longines' museum These "Calatrava" models- which historically is a complicated designation based on Patek Phillipe's cross logo but colloquially has come to describe any small 1930s-1940s dress watch- featured common designs of their era and have come to symbolize some of the most cherished qualities of all vintage watches among enthusiasts.

Further within is the white inner section, with a black crosshair and vintage Longines logo toward the 12 o'clock position At the bottom of the dial is an engine-turned seconds subdial, complete with a small blued steel hand, and determining the hour and minute are two blued-steel stick hands also constructed in the vintage style The features on the dial are very similar, with the modern edition seemingly taking each of the vintage details a step further using its modern capabilities: a more noticeable contrast between the sectors, brighter blues and darker blacks, and most notably, a silver-colored seconds subdial replacing the vintage model's white one.

This is not the first time we've covered the Longines Heritage collection in the "Vintage Eye" series; other members we've examined include the Heritage Skin Diver, Avigation BigEye, and Legend Diver, among many others In our last edition of "Vintage Eye," we compared the modern Breitling Navitimer Automatic 41 to the vintage editions that inspired it, and discuss what this new watch means for the modern Navitimer series. . Source