Seventy-two hours for under two grand
By Hannah Lindqvist, Stockholm ยท
Seventy-two hours. That's the figure I keep coming back to, because it means you can take it off on Friday evening and it's still ticking on Monday morning. For a little under two thousand dollars, with sapphire, 100 m and a good sunray blue dial, the L888.5 makes this very hard to argue with.
What I can argue with is the size. 41 mm with a chunky bracelet and 21 mm lugs is a man's sports watch, whatever the advertising shows. Longines makes this generation of Conquest in 34 and 38 mm as well, and that's where I'd send anyone with a wrist under 16 cm.
This one is for the 17 cm crowd, and for them it's one of the best buys going.