Longines Hydroconquest

An RCMP officer in Alberta, photographed at the end of an outstretched arm, the cruiser's crest and the letters RCMP GRC filling the background in full colour. The submission was spare. A role, a province, a watch. Sometimes that is all a wrist shot needs, because the picture does the talking, a working wrist in front of a working vehicle somewhere in big country. Alberta means long highways, long winters, and distances between calls that most departments never have to think about. On the wrist is a Longines Hydroconquest, blue dial and bezel over steel, a dive watch a long way from any ocean, which has never once stopped a dive watch from doing honest work on land. One officer, one province, one watch, and a quiet minute beside the vehicle before whatever comes next. Tempus Est Potentia.

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Hydroconquest Longines built its modern dive watch in 2007. The Hydroconquest took the contemporary Conquest design and hardened it for the water, with a unidirectional bezel, screw down crown and caseback, luminous hands and markers, and 300 meters of water resistance, aimed at divers who wanted real capability in a watch that still worked with street clothes. Where the brand's Legend Diver looks backward to Longines' mid century dive watches, the Hydroconquest has always been the forward looking half of the pair. A 2018 refresh brought ceramic bezel inserts and redesigned dials, keeping the line current without softening the spec sheet. Longines has been making watches since 1832, and the Hydroconquest is the piece of that history you can wear anywhere without thinking twice. In front of the crest on an Alberta road, it looks entirely at home.

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