Longines DolceVita 23 Quartz Stainless Steel L5.512.4.57.0

Longines started the DolceVita line in 1997 and took a rectangular Longines watch of 1927 as its blueprint. The shape goes back further: Longines was making rectangular watches by the 1910s, and they caught on in the following decades as Art Deco pushed case design towards new forms. This steel case is 7.2 mm thick, sits under a sapphire crystal and takes a 17 mm strap.

The L5.512.4.57.6 is the same black-dial watch on a bracelet, and the L5.512.4.59.2 puts the black dial on a Yvy leather strap. Add diamonds to the bezel and it becomes the DolceVita 23 Diamond Black, L5.512.0.57.0, or L5.512.0.57.6 on a bracelet. Other steel DolceVita 23 dials include silver with Roman numerals (L5.512.4.71.2), mother of pearl (L5.512.4.87.3) and green (L5.512.4.60.2). The narrower DolceVita 20 Diamond Black (L5.155.0.76.6) measures 19.8 mm and pairs a black dial with a diamond bezel.