Longines Master collection watches demonstrate the brand's complications in a familiar Longines package of eclectic cosmopolitan spirit. To every additional complication, there's a matching “complication” of design. All Master collection watches contain purely mechanical automatic movements – calibers that provide about two days of power reserve. In terms of design, the collection notably relies on leaf shaped hands, often crafted from blued steel, and classically round case with small lugs.

Design

Longines Master Collection watches reveal occasional Breguet and Girard-Perregaux influences. These are two of the oldest and most respected Swiss watchmaking brands, both producing industry changing innovations, in design (including the blue hands and the elaborate guilloche), as well as in mechanical engineering.

It's not accidental that Longines Master Collection borrows from these giants – that's the company's way to establish itself, by blending familiar traditional components into a new line of complicated watches.

The eclecticism of dial design is impossible to ignore: the collection offers watches with white, crème, black, brown and pink dials, ornamented with Arabic or Roman numerals, lacquered or embellished with a “barleycorn” pattern.

Longines Master Collection includes many complications: calendar, moon phase indicator, chronograph, GMT/world time indicator, dual time, day-date. What's really surprising is the way these complications are brought to life. Longines don't limit themselves to a particular way of indicating the complicated function; rather, one watch will show the function using a subdial (as a Patek Philippe watch would), while another acts on the entire dial, employing calendar hands, often in a retrograde manner (as a Breguet watch would). Some power reserve indicators even display distant Jaeger LeCoultre references. It's possible, however, that given Longines brand long history, the dissemination of design ideas occurred in a two-way fashion.

Materials

Longines Master Collection clearly focuses on the movements, resulting in a limited range of materials. Most watches present a modest but solid stainless steel case with a sapphire crystal glass, and a matching bracelet or alligator strap. More elaborate models, apparently intended for the ladies, incorporate diamonds, mother-of-pearl, and yellow gold.