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# Longines Gives The Spirit Pilot And Spirit Pilot Flyback A Matte Blue Dial
- URL: https://www.itsabouttime.email/longines-gives-the-spirit-pilot-and-spirit-pilot-flyback-a-matte-blue-dial/
- Published: 2026-09-24T15:12:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-24T15:12:09.000Z
- Author: Vuk Radic
- Tags: News

Longines launched the Spirit collection in 2020, and it has since become the brand's main contemporary line. Last year's Spirit Pilot and Spirit Pilot Flyback were a major moment for the collection: smaller, cleaner and more committed to the aviation theme than the Spirits that came before. For 2026 both get a small update in the form of matte blue dials, while the Flyback also gets a matching blue ceramic bezel.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/LonginesSpiritPilot_L3.809.4.93.6_L3.721.4.93.6_2.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/LonginesSpiritPilot_L3.809.4.93.6_L3.721.4.93.6_3.jpg)

The Spirit Pilot is 39mm wide and 11.5mm thick in brushed and polished steel, with a lug-to-lug of 47.4mm. There's a sapphire crystal on top, a screw down caseback out back, a screw-down crown on the right side and you get 100 meters of water resistance. The Flyback measures 39.5mm wide and 13.4mm thick on the same 47.4mm lug-to-lug, with a box-shaped sapphire crystal and a bidirectional bezel with a blue ceramic countdown insert. Water resistance is 100 meters. These are pretty good dimensions for both variants.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/LonginesSpiritPilot_L3.809.4.93.6_L3.721.4.93.6_4.jpeg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/LonginesSpiritPilot_L3.809.4.93.6_L3.721.4.93.6_5.jpeg)

The new blue dials are pretty handsome. Applied rhodium-plated Arabic numerals and hands are filled with Super-LumiNova, a railroad minute track runs around the perimeter, and an inner ring of rhomboid markers counts off five-second intervals, echoed by the rhomboid tip on the seconds hand. There's no date. The Flyback keeps its two sub-dials, running seconds at nine and a 30-minute counter at three, with silver colored hands. 

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/LonginesSpiritPilot_L3.809.4.93.6_L3.721.4.93.6_6.jpeg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/98/15/981552fd-1b67-4d3c-8ad7-fc38a52bf9fb/content/images/2026/09/LonginesSpiritPilot_L3.809.4.93.6_L3.721.4.93.6_7.jpeg)

The Spirit Pilot uses the Longines-exclusive calibre L888.4, an evolution of the ETA 2892, beating at 3.5Hz with 72 hours of power reserve, a silicon hairspring and COSC certification. The Flyback uses the hand-wound calibre L792.4, based on the Valjoux 7750 but reworked with a column wheel and flyback function, running at 4Hz with 68 hours of reserve, a silicon hairspring and COSC certification, visible through a sapphire caseback. Both come on either a steel bracelet with a micro-adjustable double folding clasp or a blue rubber strap with a pin buckle and quick-release system.

The Longines Spirit Pilot Blue is priced at €2,600 on rubber and €2,950 on the bracelet, while the Spirit Pilot Flyback Blue is priced at €5,050 on rubber and €5,400 on the bracelet. Both are available now as part of the permanent collection. See more [on the Longines website](https://www.longines.com/watches/spirit?ref=itsabouttime.email) (when they show up some time this week).