{"id":26071,"date":"2021-03-22T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T07:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/the-2016-longines-railroad-the-railroad-is-back\/"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:04:22","slug":"longines-railroad-888-watch-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/longines-railroad-888-watch-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Longines RailRoad; the RailRoad is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify\">After having \u201ccollected\u201d quite an interesting amount of articles about <strong>Longines<\/strong>, I have come to a firm conclusion, namely that there is not one single watch-making sector that the brand from Saint-Imier hasn\u2019t had an impact on. The path that this manufacturer has embarked on is like a novel where the main character is constantly changing their personality and when you eventually think you have figured them out, they suddenly move to yet another role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Longines Railroad 888 tre\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/media\/uploads\/Longines_Railroad_888_tre.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" title=\"Longines_Railroad_888_tre\">This is the very brand that contributed the most to the history of civil aviation by crafting icons like the <strong>Hour Angle<\/strong> and the <strong>Weems <\/strong>for instance, the same manufacturer that has made a belief out of the single\u00a0push-piece chrono and that has paved the way for its reintroduction on to the market. <strong>Longines<\/strong> has played an important role in the sector of \"railroad\" watches too in a time following WWII before the advent of the digital revolution. The next chapter in the manufacturer\u2019s long history is jealously treasured inside the Saint-Imier\u2019s museum and this year <strong>Longines<\/strong> has managed to bring it back to life; I am talking about the company\u2019s <strong>RailRoad<\/strong> watches supply to many European and non-European railroad companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Longines Railroad 288 Original\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/media\/uploads\/Longines_Railroad_288_Original.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" title=\"Longines_Railroad_288_Original\">The name <strong>RailRoad<\/strong> is not a trade-name but rather a standard and the <strong>double R<\/strong> that is present on the model\u2019s dial marked that this timepiece could actually boast quite a few out-of-the-ordinary characteristics like, for instance, the guarantee of an <strong>accuracy to within about 4 seconds per day<\/strong>, <strong>antimagnetic<\/strong> and <strong>antishock<\/strong> properties as clearly stated on the case-back of the original timepiece. This watch\u2019s name is <strong>Longines RailRoad 280<\/strong> and it was the model with which, back in the 60s, the Swiss manufacturer supplied railroad companies of many countries among which were <strong>Italy<\/strong>, <strong>Canada<\/strong> and the <strong>United States<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The <strong>Longines RailRoad 280<\/strong> is a hand-wound manual collector\u2019s piece that measures <strong>35mm<\/strong> in diameter and whose value on the market keeps going up day after day. This year, the brand with the \"<em>winged hourglass<\/em>\" logo has decided to re-launch this model by releasing its new <strong>888<\/strong> version where the three figures indicate the name of the caliber hosted inside the new <strong>RailRoad<\/strong> that replaces the original <strong>280<\/strong> <strong>caliber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Longines Railroad 888 sette\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/media\/uploads\/Longines_Railroad_888_sette.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" title=\"Longines_Railroad_888_sette\">Bringing back to life models from the past is a specific strategy that all those brands with a rich history on their shoulders always devise but there is a big difference between the approach chosen by <strong>Longines<\/strong> if compared to other brands\u2019; <strong>Longines<\/strong> re-editions are exceptionally faithful to the original pieces and that\u2019s because of the incredible modernity of the manufacturer\u2019s historic models that wouldn\u2019t look out of place in the window of a modern jewellery store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Longines Railroad 888 cinque\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/media\/uploads\/Longines_Railroad_888_cinque.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" title=\"Longines_Railroad_888_cinque\">For this very reason even the <strong>Longines RailRoad 888<\/strong> is a faithful re-edition of the original <strong>RailRoad<\/strong> <strong>280<\/strong> and <strong>Longines<\/strong> has resized the former <strong>35mm<\/strong> in diameter to the current <strong>40mm<\/strong>. This trend had already started in the late 2015 with the three new Longines\u2019 single-button chronographs whose size doesn\u2019t exceed the <strong>41mm<\/strong> in diameter. We could probably state that \u201c<em>40 is the new 47<\/em>\u201d to highlight the reduction in diameter that is currently flooding the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Longines Railroad 888 due\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/media\/uploads\/Longines_Railroad_888_due.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" title=\"Longines_Railroad_888_due\">The dial is as rounded as the original model\u2019s and the hesalite-made crystal has been replaced with an exceptionally rounded sapphire-made \u201c<em>glass-box<\/em>\u201d crystal with anti-glaring properties. Even the original numbering on the dial has been preserved like, for instance, the indications located at 12 o\u2019clock that sport a 0 number instead of the classic 12 number and also the internal scale located at 24 o\u2019clock. The <strong>888 caliber<\/strong> is a modern automatic caliber oscillating at a frequency of <strong>25,200 vibrations per hour<\/strong>, it guarantees up to <strong>64 hours of power reserve<\/strong> and \u2013 this is quite an interesting detail \u2013 it has been crafted by <strong>ETA<\/strong> exclusively for <strong>Longines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Longines Railroad 888 sei\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/media\/uploads\/Longines_Railroad_888_sei.jpg\" style=\"width:100%\" title=\"Longines_Railroad_888_sei\"><strong>Longines<\/strong> has created its <strong>RailRoad <\/strong>faithfully adhering to the characteristics of the original model and has avoided inserting new functionality features that could have ruined this timepiece\u2019s flair. I am talking in particular about the lack of the date window that watch fans have enthusiastically welcomed, the very same choice that <strong>Longines<\/strong> adopted when it unveiled the first re-edition of the <strong>Legend<\/strong> <strong>Diver<\/strong>. The <strong>Longines RailRoad <\/strong>retails at <strong>1,540 euro<\/strong> and it is yet another confirmation that the manufacturer is well capable of coming up with watch-making icons with an incredible naturalness and that, perhaps, a whole new collection has just born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">\n<\/p><div style=\"min-height: 10px; height: auto; width: auto; margin: 0 auto; position: relative; display: table;\">\n<p>    <a rel=\"prettyPhoto&lt;div id=&#039;gallery-1&#039; class=&#039;gallery galleryid-26071 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail&#039;&gt;&lt;figure class=&#039;gallery-item&#039;&gt;\n\t\t\t&lt;div class=&#039;gallery-icon landscape&#039;&gt;\n\t\t\t\t&lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/en\/longines-railroad-888-watch-review\/longines_railroad_888_evi_xvcxbmz-2\/&#039;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.horbiter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Longines_Railroad_888_evi_xvcXBMZ-150x150.jpg&quot; 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width: 150px\" alt=\"Longines_Railroad_888_cinque\"><br>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Photo credit: Horbiter\u00ae's proprietary photo-shooting)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Gaetano C @Horbiter\u00ae<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaetanoCimmino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Gaetano Cimmino<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having \u201ccollected\u201d quite an interesting amount of articles about Longines, I have come to a firm conclusion, namely that there is not one single watch-making sector that the brand from Saint-Imier hasn\u2019t had an impact on. 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