Conquest 2023

The 2023 refresh of the 34mm Conquest swaps in a green dial with diamond hour markers, which pulls this reference toward the jewelry-adjacent end of my scoring sheet rather than the tool-watch end. It's automatic, water resistant to 100m, and runs on a steel bracelet — specs that would suit a sports watch, wrapped around a dial treatment that clearly wants to be looked at rather than used underwater. That mismatch isn't a flaw so much as a positioning choice, and it's one Longines makes often: engineer the case like a sports watch, dress the dial like an evening piece.