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Hands-On: Longines Spirit Chronograph
I recently went hands-on with the Longines Spirit three-hand watch, one of two in the inaugural releases for this new pilot’s watch collection from the brand. Here, I go hands-on with the more complicated sibling with a chronograph and its own design touches. The Spirit Chronograph is another ideal example of what Longines does best - check off more boxes than just about anyone else while offering serious value. You could (like many, many others) do a lot worse than a handsome and well-finished COSC-certified chronometer with a column-wheel chronograph at just a hair over $3,000. There are some decent chronographs out there for that price but, again, not easy to find one that checks all those boxes.Just like the three-hander Spirit I covered, the Spirit Chronograph seen here is the blue-dial version, though it also comes in white and black. The Spirit is "vintage-inspired,"but I see this watch as a more contemporary and mainstream option in the Longines chronograph catalog, while
Girard-Perregaux Laureato 42mm Ceramic Watch
The new Girard-Perregaux?Laureato 42mm Ceramic (reference:?81010-32-631-32A) is an unexpected but welcome development, not simply for the Laureato but the octagonal luxury watch segment-I guess we could say there is such a thing. The Laureato had its phoenix moment when it rose from its ashes in early 2016, slightly re-designed and re-launched through a wide variety of case size, material, and color combinations. At present, the all this new-found black unscratchableness comes only in 42mm, but we are told a 38mm version and another 42mm version are coming at SIHH 2018.Truth be told, I have for long been wondering why more of the usual suspects in the aforementioned octagonal luxury watch gang are yet to be launched in ceramic-the Nautilus, the Octo, and the Royal Oak have not at all, or only partially embraced this material, and even though that changed in January with the Royal Oak perpetual calendar in ceramic (hands-on here), with its complexity and over $93k price tag that hardly