Longines Les Grandes Classiques watches

Longines Les Grandes Classiques gathers small, dressy watches, most of them in gold: the Prestige Gold line, Les Ravissantes de Longines, a Prestige Rattrapante and the 29 mm Elegant Collection in pink gold. Longines was founded in Saint-Imier in 1832 by Auguste Agassiz and has belonged to the Swatch Group and its predecessors since 1983.

Prestige Gold is the core of the group: jewellery watches in yellow or white gold, where the number in the name gives the case size in millimetres. The Prestige Gold 15 Oval, the Oval 20.4, the Oval 21.3 and the Cushion 18 change the shape rather than the idea. Many are set with stones on the bezel, and mother-of-pearl dials appear alongside white, silver and champagne ones.

Les Ravissantes de Longines are 18 mm watches with mother-of-pearl dials under sapphire, in steel (L2.220.0.83.2) or pink gold (L2.220.9.83.2). Two pieces stand apart from the jewellery watches. The Prestige Rattrapante (L4.654.6.11.2) is a 38 mm yellow-gold watch with a white dial; a rattrapante is a chronograph with a second seconds hand that can be stopped and started on its own. The Elegant Collection 29 (L4.287.8.12.0) is a 29 mm pink-gold watch with a white dial.