Longines 1832 watches

The Longines 1832 is a family of classic steel dress watches named after the year Longines was founded. It is not a remake of a particular historic model, which is the job of the brand's Heritage line; instead it takes a touch of 1950s and 1960s design and puts it in polished cases with long, straight, faceted lugs. The collection started with a three-hand watch with date, and a moon-phase model joined it in 2019.

The dials are grained, with faceted applied hour markers and a polished cone at every minute, and a Super-LumiNova dot at each five-minute mark matching the lume on the hands. The movements, developed exclusively for Longines, show through sapphire casebacks.

The 40 mm watches come in three versions, all automatic with a 64-hour power reserve. The 1832 Automatic (L4.825) is the three-hand model with a date window, 10.6 mm thick. The 1832 Moonphase (L4.826) runs on calibre L899.2 at 25,200 vibrations per hour, with a moon-phase subdial at 6 o'clock ringed by a date read off a small hand. The 1832 Annual Calendar (L4.827) drops the moon for day and date in an aperture at 3 o'clock. Both complicated models measure 12.3 mm thick. Longines added black dials to all three in 2020.

The 1832 Automatic 30 (L4.325) is the 30 mm, 10.1 mm thick version for smaller wrists, on the self-winding calibre L592 with a 40-hour power reserve. The L4.325.4.87.2 has a beige mother-of-pearl dial with 12 diamond hour markers; the L4.325.4.52.0 is the black dial without diamonds. The 1832 Retrograde Moonphase (L4.828.4.92.2) steps up to a 42 mm steel case with a beige dial.