Longines finishes off this case with a razor-sharp caseback engraving featuring the brand’s winged hourglass emblem above a stylized globe motif. It’s a color that doesn’t call undue attention to itself, fading to nearly black in most lighting conditions, but in direct sunlight, it forms an attractively nuanced complement to the dial’s gilt accents.
Our hands-on sample arrived with the unique green bezel, in a rich mature hue that calls to mind Bentley’s famously dark interpretation of British racing green. Longines offers this bezel with ceramic inserts in black, navy blue, or green, with a high-gloss finish that adds both depth and a sense of tangible quality to the overall design.
The Spirit Zulu Time sets itself apart from the rest of the line with its bidirectional coin edge bezel, featuring a classic engraved 24-hour scale. Like many modern Longines sports designs, however, these lugs are notoriously long (49.2mm from lug tip to lug tip) and may cause overhang issues on smaller wrists. Although the overall thickness stands at a sizeable 13.9mm, the Spirit Zulu Time wears markedly slimmer than the numbers might suggest thanks to a gentle flowing wraparound curve echoed through the sapphire crystal, the bezel, and the lugs. Measuring in at 42mm, the Spirit Zulu Time is clean and athletic on the wrist, with flat horizontally brushed case sides and a continuous polished chamfer running from lug tip to lug tip.
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Overall, the stainless steel case of the Longines Spirit Zulu Time keeps the visual language of the series intact. The new Longines Spirit Zulu Time line brings rich, nuanced new colorways and a classically handsome execution to its take on the GMT watch, delivering one of the most attractive and charismatic vintage-inspired GMTs on the current market. Given the brand’s long association with aviation and the pilot flair of the Spirit series, a GMT version of the Spirit was inevitable, and for 2022 the brand delivers on this front with a new family of releases named after the very first Longines wristwatch ever to display two time zones. The Longines Spirit series is one of the most successful examples of this intermediate breed of watches, blending the warmth and easy legibility of a classic pilot’s watch with a versatile athletic shape and a clean, timeless execution. You guessed it: Mary, Mercy, and Community.The luxury watch industry’s love affair with vintage-inspired sports designs shows no signs of stopping in 2022, and while this years-long trend has produced a sea of direct vintage reissues, it has also given rise to a whole subgenre of sporting timepieces that capture the spirit of years gone by without directly referencing any one historic timepiece. In summary (and this is what the forthcoming book 33 Days to Mary, Mercy, and Community is all about), you might say that the Marian Missionary spirituality really comes down to three things. More specifically, relying on the Gospel of John, that book highlights the greater glory of the Mass that brings us through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, into the communion of love that ends with God our Father and embraces us even now. Jesus brings us home to God, our Father, whom we get to know in 33 Days to Greater Glory.
They bring us to a personal encounter with Jesus in his mercy, which is what 33 Days to Merciful Love is all about. But it doesn’t end with Mary and the Holy Spirit. That book is about Mary and, at least implicitly, her Spouse, the Holy Spirit. First, start with 33 Days to Morning Glory. So where do we begin? Well, while one can read them in any order, here’s the ideal sequence. Admittedly, there are a lot of books in that image above. Because those books are so important for understanding and embracing the spirituality, let’s briefly look at what they’re all about. Now, this summary of the Missionary spirituality gets fleshed out and becomes something concrete and real through the books that you see above.
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