Heritage watches

Heritage is a name several watch brands use, and the watches share little beyond it. Longines, Tissot, Montblanc, Tudor, Carl F. Bucherer, Eterna and H. Moser & Cie each have their own Heritage line.

Longines makes Heritage one of its main collections, alongside Master, Conquest, Spirit and Elegance. It groups the Legend Diver, Ultra-Chron, Pilot Majetek, Conquest Heritage, Flagship Heritage, Avigation and Heritage Classic. The Legend Diver goes back to 1959, when Longines followed its first dive watch of 1958 with a Super-Compressor case, an internal rotating bezel and two screw-in crowns. Conquest was the first Longines line to have its name protected, in 1954, and Flagship has been a Longines line since the late 1950s. Around them sit models named after years, from the Heritage 1918 to the Military 1938, the Weems Second-Setting and Lindbergh Hour Angle watches, and the small BelleArti, down to 19 mm. Several limited runs carry the name of a country or retailer: a titanium and bronze Heritage Military Kuwait, a Flagship Heritage United Arab Emirates, an Avigation Chronograph Portugal.

Tissot's Heritage watches range from the 27 mm Banana and the small Prince and Heritage Porto to the Visodate, at 39.3 to 42 mm, and the 49.41 mm Phileas 24h. Montblanc's are the Heritage Spirit and Heritage Chronométrie, 38 to 44 mm, mostly with silver dials and steel or red gold cases.

Tudor started its Heritage line in 2010 with the Heritage Chrono, based on its 7033 chronograph prototype, which never reached production. In 2013 came the Heritage Chrono Blue, faithful to the 7169 Montecarlo, whose dial recalls a Monte Carlo roulette table, in a 42 mm case with a sapphire crystal. The Heritage Advisor shares the 42 mm size, in steel and titanium. Carl F. Bucherer's Heritage Bicompax Annual comes in Hometown Editions of 88 pieces named after cities from Lucerne to Tokyo, and Moser's Heritage watches, including the Heritage Tourbillon, use HMC calibres.