This document is an instruction manual for a LONGINES watch, specifically the CONQUEST VHP – L289 model. It provides comprehensive information on the watch's features, usage, and maintenance, along with details about its international warranty.
Function Description:
The LONGINES CONQUEST VHP – L289 is a high-precision quartz watch designed for accurate timekeeping and chronograph functions. It features a perpetual calendar, which automatically adjusts for different month lengths and leap years, ensuring the correct date display without manual intervention for extended periods. The watch is equipped with a chronograph function that allows for the measurement of elapsed time, including both partial times (successive events) and intermediate times (split-seconds).
The core timekeeping functions include:
- Hour, Minute, and Small Seconds Hands: These hands display the current time. The small seconds hand is located in a sub-dial.
- Date Window: A window on the dial displays the current date.
- Chronograph Seconds Hand: This central hand is used for timing events with the chronograph function.
- 30-minute Counter: A sub-dial that records up to 30 minutes of elapsed time during chronograph operation.
- 12-hour Counter: A sub-dial that records up to 12 hours of elapsed time during chronograph operation.
The watch is designed with an "Energy Saving" mode to conserve battery life. When the crown is pulled out to position 2 for more than 60 seconds, or when the watch is first delivered with a black clip around the winding stem, it enters this mode, and the hands return to 12 o'clock.
Usage Features:
The manual details how to operate the watch's various functions:
- First Use: Upon receiving the watch, a black clip around the winding stem must be removed to release the crown. Pushing the crown back into position 1 automatically sets the watch to Swiss time and date, after which local time can be set.
- Time-Setting: To set the time, the crown is pulled out to position 2. Turning the crown slowly adjusts the minute hand minute by minute, with the second hand automatically returning to 12 o'clock. Turning the crown quickly moves the hour hand hour by hour. Once the desired time is set, the crown is pushed back into position 1.
- Date Correction: The date can be corrected by pulling the crown out to position 2 and turning it quickly in either direction. This moves the hour hand forward or backward in one-hour steps, which in turn adjusts the date. The perpetual calendar ensures that the date correction accounts for month lengths and leap years, with a limit of +/- 1 day to avoid disrupting the calendar. After correction, the crown is pushed back to position 1.
- Screw-in Crown: Some LONGINES models, including potentially this one, feature a screw-in crown for enhanced water resistance. Before setting the time, correcting the date, or winding, the crown must be unscrewed by turning it anti-clockwise. After making adjustments, it should be returned to position 1, pushed in, and firmly screwed down to maintain water resistance.
- Chronograph Function (Partial Times): This function measures successive events.
- To start timing, press push-piece 2.
- To stop timing a stage, press push-piece 2 again.
- To reset the chronograph, press push-piece 3.
- The chronograph can time events lasting up to 12 hours. If timing exceeds 36 hours, the watch automatically resets the chronograph to save battery life, assuming it was left on by mistake.
- Split-Seconds Function (Intermediate Time): This function allows for measuring intermediate times without stopping the main timing.
- To start the race, press push-piece 2.
- To see the first split time, press push-piece 3; the chronograph seconds and 30-minute hands will stop.
- To continue timing from where it left off, press push-piece 3 again; the chronograph hands will jump to the elapsed time since the start.
- This split-seconds function can be alternated indefinitely by pressing push-piece 3.
- To stop the chronograph and display the total race time, press push-piece 2.
- To reset the chronograph, press push-piece 3.
Maintenance Features:
The manual provides important guidelines for maintaining the watch's performance and longevity:
- Water-Resistance: The watch's water-resistance is crucial and can be affected by factors like gasket drying or accidental shocks to the crown.
- It is recommended to rinse the watch in soft water after any contact with sea water.
- The water-resistance should be checked annually by an approved LONGINES Service Centre.
- Users are explicitly warned not to open the watch themselves.
- Crucially, the time-setting crown and/or push-pieces must never be activated when the watch is underwater. They must be pushed in or screwed down before any immersion in water.
- A table indicates different levels of water resistance (3 bar, 5 bar, 10 bar, 30 bar) and their corresponding activities (e.g., rain, showering, swimming).
- Battery End of Life (E.O.L.) and End of Energy (E.O.E.): The watch indicates a low battery by one of its hands jumping every 5 seconds. This "E.O.L." mode lasts for approximately six months. After this period, the watch enters "E.O.E." mode, where the hands stop at 12 o'clock.
- If the battery is replaced during E.O.L. mode or within six months of E.O.E. mode, the perpetual calendar will not require adjustment.
- However, if the battery is replaced after this six-month period, an approved watchmaker will need to reprogram the perpetual calendar.
- General Maintenance: The Customer Service department of La Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A. ensures that LONGINES watches are perfectly maintained. For servicing, the watch should be entrusted to an official LONGINES dealer or an approved LONGINES Service Centre listed on their website (www.longines.com). This ensures servicing complies with the brand's standards.
- Warranty: The watch comes with an international warranty covering material and manufacturing defects.
- A 24-month warranty applies to all LONGINES watch models, and a five-year warranty applies to automatic watches purchased from January 1, 2021.
- Watch straps and bracelets are covered by a 24-month international warranty for material or manufacturing defects.
- The warranty is valid only with a dated and fully completed warranty certificate from an official LONGINES dealer.
- Defects will be repaired free of charge. If repair is not possible, the watch will be replaced with an identical or similar model. The replacement watch's warranty expires on the same date as the original.
- The warranty does not cover battery life, normal wear and tear (scratches, alteration of materials like leather, PVD coating, bronze color), damage from improper use, neglect, accidents (knocks, dents, scratches), incorrect use, failure to follow instructions, or any harm resulting from operational failure or lack of precision.
- It also excludes watches handled or altered by non-approved persons (e.g., for battery replacement, servicing, or repairs not supervised by La Compagnie des Montres Longines, Francillon S.A.).
- The manufacturer's warranty is independent of any vendor warranty and does not affect the purchaser's statutory rights against the vendor.
- Battery Safety Warning: A warning emphasizes keeping the battery out of reach of children, as swallowing or placing it inside any part of the body can cause serious injuries, requiring immediate medical attention.
The manual also directs users to the LONGINES website (www.longines.com/instruction-manual) for more detailed information, tutorials, and to access the specific instruction manual for their watch in 33 languages by scanning a QR code found on the warranty card or in the manual itself.
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