Longines Pilot Majetek

Quick specs Longines Pilot Majetek
Price: € 4.000 | CHF 3’500 | $ 3,750 | £ 3,400
Size: 43 mm
Reference:L2.838.4.53.0 (brown leather) | L2.838.4.53.2 (green leather) | L2.838.4.53.8 (khaki green NATO)

This Longines Pilot Majetek is a vintage-inspired pilot watch that has its roots in a 1935 model from Longines. That year they registered a curved cushion shaped pilot watch at the International Industrial Property Office in Bern, Switzerland. So that year is engraved at the side of the case. It’s not on the pictures but should be a nice detail.

The case is a 43-millimeter stainless steel cushion shaped model with a screw-in case back. It can withstand 10 bar of water pressure. The watch has an external fluted bidirectional rotating bezel with triangular marker to indicate the start of a certain time a pilot wants to measure. The hands are rhodium plated, on an matt black dial, and small seconds on the sub dial at 6 o’clock.

The Longines Pilot Majetek has a power reserve of 72 hours

Inside is the Longines caliber L893.6 which supplies a magnetic resistant silicon balance spring and is based on the ETA caliber A31.L91. This automatic movement delivers a power reserve of 72 hours and it is COSC certified.

The Longines Pilot Majetek comes in three different versions. You can choose from a brown leather or dark green leather strap, or a khaki green Nato strap. And if you wonder where the name Majetek comes from: it is Czech for Military Property, kind of. In the 1930s Longines made pilot watches for the Czech Air Force, and those watches had “majetek vojenske spravy” printed on the case back: loosely translated as “property of the military”.