For their final release in the brand?s 190th anniversary year, Longines has unveiled a vintage inspired chronograph with a black dial they?ve dubbed the Record Heritage. The word ?Heritage? factors into many Longines releases, of course. They are one of the best at digging through their archives and curating just the right pieces to reintroduce to contemporary enthusiasts. This is the first time a watch with a design that reaches back into the past has been added to the Record collection, however, which makes this latest release slightly more noteworthy than it otherwise might be. 

The Longines Record collection debuted in 2017, and the big news at the time was that this collection was the first to exclusively feature watches that had been COSC certified. The designs were, and are, largely contemporary in nature and not too remarkable – the sort of watches that have a fairly obvious mass market appeal but don?t necessarily do much for the enthusiast or collector. Thus, we haven?t seen too much in the way of Record releases across these pages as of late. 
The Record collection always felt like it had a certain amount of potential to me that had gone unrealized. The name comes from the old Record Watch Company, a Swiss brand that traces its history to the early 20th century. They might be most famous today to collectors of military issued watches, being one of the twelve ?Dirty Dozen? brands contracted by the British Ministry of Defense to produce fie...