Luxury Watch Brand Status

Luxury Watch Brand Status3 years ago, I purchased a Longines Hydroconquest Automatic with the black aluminum bezel. I had previously owned a Tag Heuer Link Quartz Chronograph (too many Bourne movies), an Oris TT1, my father's Omega Deville, my grandfather's Elgin, my mother's refinished Hamilton Electric, some Seiko Divers, a Movado Museum Automatic, and a few Victorinox watches. I bought the Longines because I read that Swatch would stop selling blanks to third parties, I had been told that Lon