{"product_id":"longines-comet-mystery-dial-as12389","title":"Longines Comet 'Mystery Dial'","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe late 1960s were an extraordinary moment in watch design. Traditional rules were beginning to loosen, cases were becoming more sculptural, colors more adventurous, and designers were increasingly willing to reconsider something as fundamental as how a watch should display the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Longines Comet is a wonderfully strange product of that experimentation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDating to circa late 60s, this Reference 8475 features a 35mm stainless steel cushion case surrounding one of the most distinctive displays Longines ever produced. Rather than conventional centrally mounted hands, the Comet uses rotating discs to create its unusual “mystery” effect. An arrow-shaped hour indicator travels around the inner hour track, while a small luminous “comet” circles the outer track to indicate the minutes. The mechanism effectively disguises the traditional relationship between hands and pinion, leaving the indicators seemingly floating across the dial.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd what a dial it is. Concentric fields of teal blue and white give the watch an almost Space Age, instrument-panel quality, punctuated by Arabic numerals at the cardinal positions and crisp hash marks around the perimeter. The broad gold-tone hour arrow and tiny comet-like minute marker add another layer of visual eccentricity. It is unmistakably a late-1960s design, already anticipating the more radical shapes and colors that would define the following decade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe watch retains its signed acrylic crystal and signed crown and is powered by the manually wound Longines Calibre 702. It comes fitted to a coordinating blue alligator leather strap with a matching stainless steel pin buckle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than half a century later, the Comet still feels genuinely unconventional. At a time when much of contemporary watchmaking looks backward for inspiration, the Reference 8475 is a reminder of an era when Longines was perfectly happy to imagine what a wristwatch might look like next.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Longines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44139653431383,"sku":"40993325","price":3250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/files\/AS12389_40993325_LONGINES_COMET--1.jpg?v=1787868666","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/longines-comet-mystery-dial-as12389","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}