We?ve covered the Longines Conquest V.H.P. (Very High Precision) multiple times since it was first announced back in March, but it finally made its U.S. launch last night at the brand boutique in lower Manhattan with ambassador and tennis legend Andre Agassi. What I find so interesting about this super accurate quartz watch is that while so many brands are panicking and jumping into the smart watch realm with lackluster results, Longines has doubled down and made what might just be the most accurate quartz watch ever. While other hyper-accurate quartz watches have been around for awhile ? such as the Bulova Precisionist, Citizen Chronomaster, Breitling Superquartz, and Grand Seiko 9F series to name a few ? they never approached the exacting precision that the new V.H.P. collection boasts at ± five seconds per year. You heard that right: ± five seconds every 365 days. That?s less than half a second every month.
One of the coolest features of this watch is the gear position detection system that allows the watch hands to automatically re-sync if they?re accidentally displaced by shock or a magnetic field. It also boasts a perpetual calendar in the date, meaning the timepiece knows the length of each month and when a leap year occurs, so you won?t ever have to mess with the date. The crown also has this funky trick where you can set the watch either by slowly ticking off minute-by-minute or, with a quick turn, the hour hand will jump by the hour so the minute hand stays ac...