Recently, Alpina has introduced the new Startimer Pilot collection, homage to the aviation pioneers, which will be presented at BaselWorld 2011 event. The timepieces are inspired by the company’s past models and are launched in limited number.

     One of the representatives of the newest watch collection is the Startimer Automatic Pilot watch, design with strict technical requirements specific to an aviator’s watch.

     The new Startimer Automatic Pilot watch embodies a 44 mm rounded case manufactured in satin-finished stainless steel fitted with a matte-black dial with oversized white numerals coated with luminescent material, giving the model a vintage look. The case accommodates a polished bezel and a big winding crown at the 3 o’clock position and is harmoniously fitted with a black crocodile strap with an opening system at the case and finalized with a folding buckle in steel. Moreover, the case boasts water resistance up to 100-meter and features sapphire crystal protection over the dial and the screwed back.

     The dial of the timepiece is simple and balanced and assures an optimal readability. It is equipped with: central hour and minute-hands in white leaf shape dressed in a luminous material, while the seconds hand bear the red triangle signature of the brand and is also luminescent, a date aperture at 6 o’clock and a white triangle revealed at 12 o’clock. The time is displayed with the help of the oversized white Arabic numbers highlighted by the black background which come with hour-indications in white and minute indexes. In addition, the dial is coated in an anti-reflexive sapphire crystal material protecting the watch from scratches.

     Ticking inside the case is the self-winding mechanical movement – the Swiss made AL-525 Calibre which gives life to the functions of the Startimer Automatic Pilot watch, operating at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour and generating 42-hour power reserve. The automatic movement is set with 26 jewels and equipped with a black Alpina rotor embellished with ‘Côtes de Genève’ finish and bridges decorated with ‘Côtes de Genève’ motif. This nicely finish movement can be admired via the transparent case-back.

     Produced in limited number of 8888 copies, the new Startimer Automatic Pilot watch comes at a selling price of $1150 on leather strap and $1350 on metal bracelet.

     The characteristics of the Alpina Extreme Tourbillon Regulator Manufacture watch are perfectly represented by the design and the sophisticated dial. The 48 mm three-part case of the new watch has a sporty and modern design and is joined to a soft rubber strap very comfortable on the wrist, completed with a deployment buckle. The case features a black bezel composed of ceramic while the black case is made of titanium and is covered in diamond like carbon. The two versions of the timepiece offer a peek at the ingenious movement via the sapphire glasses case-backs.

     This sporty watch employs a Full Black dial equipped with Arabic numbers, applied brushed steel hour markers and skeletonized hands blackened with PVD coating, black satin touches in the center of the ‘regulator’ counter, a tourbillon cage decorated with great originality and a dark PVD oscillating weight – Alpina signature. The matt black dial is protected by a sapphire crystal coating for an ultimate resistance.

     Inside, the new Alpina Extreme Tourbillon Regulator Manufacture watch incorporates an automatic AL-980 Calibre movement made of 188 parts, constructed with an escapement wheel in silicium and equipped with the last technological innovation – the lever. After three years of research and development, experts within the manufacture, are ready to present the new Tourbillon Regulator Manufacture movement, entirely developed and manufactured in-house. Moreover, this amazing movement incorporates a Tourbillon cage made of 80 individual parts, a special weight balancing and an Incabloc system shock absorber. The caliber is adorned with 33 jewels and beats at a rate of 28,800 alternations per hour, which work to deliver 48 hours power-reserve.

     Issued in 18 copies of each of the two variants in rose gold case with black ceramic bezel and titanium case with rose gold bezel, the Alpina Extreme Tourbillon Regulator Manufacture watch is design to resist beneath the water up to 100 meters.

     Finally, for a high quality sport watch, the Swiss company is selling the new Extreme Tourbillon Regulator Manufacture timepiece at a price of around $50,000.

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        The Alpina brand of watches was established back in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, who was sure that the small watch making company would soon reach the peak of its success and also, worldwide appreciation. Trying to capture the spirit of alpinists, the spirit of adventure and dynamism, Gottlieb Hauser revolutionized the world of sport watches with the 4 elements considered by him indispensable to any sport watch. A respectable Alpina sporty watch should be antimagnetic, should be waterproof, should be endowed with an anti-shock system and also it should be made of a strong and durable material. When you have all these 4 elements put together, only then, you can start thinking about its mechanism, which most of the times is quite impressive.

        The new Avalanche Collection introduced by Alpina tries to capture the essence of the past into a modern and contemporary design. The new Collection presents the new Alpina Avalanche Gmt Men’s Watch, a watch that has all the necessary technical qualities and aesthetic features to justify its spicy price. Designed especially for those interested in living an active and challenging life, the new Alpina Avalanche Gmt Men’s Watch displays the sportiest design that shelters one of the most resistant timekeeping mechanisms in the watch manufacturing industry. Fitting any environment, the new watch provides the best reliability in the harshest of conditions.

        With a robust case made of stainless steel and measuring 42 mm in diameter, the new Alpina Avalanche Gmt Men’s Watch has a perfectly adapted masculine design that implies resistance, power and functionality. Although some of its design features are new for the Alpina brand, the watch maintains, all in all, some of the old design characteristics of the previous Alpina collections, dedicated to sportsmen and alpinists. The round bezel is adorned with black Arabic numerals which are contrasting with the stainless steel material.

        The dial of the new Alpina Avalanche Gmt Men’s Watch is available either on black or on stainless steel, and it recurs to a vertical strap design theme to add elegance and refinement to its appearance. The legibility of the dial is absolute, as the designers from Alpina have chosen to use an uncomplicated design with few visible functions on the dial in order to create a reliable and simple watch. The date window is located at the 3 o’clock position, while the GMT function is located at the 6 o’clock position. The Arabic numerals are used to accentuate the 12, 9 and 6 o’clock positions and are luminescent.

        The mechanism of the new Alpina Avalanche Gmt Men’s Watch is activated through an AL-300 Calibre, providing a 100 m water resistance. The new model introduced by this collection is available both on a fancy stainless steel bracelet, and on a sporty black rubber strap, the main difference between these two being the price. You can acquire the black rubber one with 430 dollars, while the stainless steel version can reach up to 550 dollars.

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         The perfect sporty lines that make up the design of the new Alpina Extreme Chrono Double Digit watch show a daring attitude from the part of the brand’s designers, who wanted to create this time a remarkable timepiece that would remain both a key element in their collections and a turning point in the creative process of the Alpina’s brand. The new watch is simple in appearance, yet complicated in the technical movement it provides. A self-winding chronograph, accompanied by an interesting dial configuration is the main point of attraction at this new model.

         Having managed to impress not only the loyal Alpina customers worldwide, but also specialists in watch manufacturing, the new Alpina Extreme Chrono Double Digit watch represents a highly innovative timepiece with a very complicated mechanism sheltered by the most functional and simple design. The idea of a sport watch is to provide the necessary functions and reliability by displaying an uncomplicated and easily legible design, and this new model introduced by Alpina is exactly like that.

         Uncomplicated in appearance, the design of this new model provides a round 46 mm in diameter case, with a dark color theme presented in its black dial that although black it still offers the best legibility. The new Alpina Extreme Chrono Double Digit watch is equipped with a shock-absorption system fit to face the most dangerous falls or accidents, assuring its owner of absolute reliability even under such conditions.

         The 46 mm in diameter case is round and masculine, giving the impression of a very resistant timepiece, and it comes in two material versions. One version uses stainless steel, while the other black PVD steel. Although both of the versions render perfectly the idea of sports and action, the black PVD steel version tends to be preferred by those who are into extreme sports, challenging environments and always participating in dangerous competitions. Regardless the version of the case, the bezel is made of PVD steel and is secured with the help of 6 Alpina screws.

         The dial of the new Alpina Extreme Chrono Double Digit watch approaches two different designs, one with two red sub-dials, while the other maintaining the dark design theme with a completely black dial. The date window is located at the 6 o’clock position and it provides both the current day, and also the previous and the future day. Other specifications, minute function, hour function, etc are pointed out to with the help of traditional indicators and Arabic numeral.

         The case is covered in sapphire crystal, both the top and the back, allowing the owner to take a look at the complicated mechanical movement. The new Alpina Extreme Chrono Double Digit watch uses a Caliber AL-850 chronograph, which makes of this sport-oriented watch a perfect timepiece appropriate even for those pretentious watch connoisseurs.

Alpina Extreme Chrono Double Digit Watch Pictures Gallery

         The quartz crises struck violently in the seventies and the Swiss watch – industry had to deal with the new situation. Alpina found herself powerless in front of the spreading emerge of electronic watches. In order to overcome this, many major companies united, but Alpina confronted the situation alone and without succeeding. For the next years, Alpina tried many solutions, but the most important ones were in 1972 when the brand was incorporated with German investors and in 2002 it was took on by Frederique Constant SA and Alpina watches were to be found on the markets all over the world.

         The model Alpina Geneve was released to mark the 125th anniversary and to present a new pattern completely developed in their own workshops. Alpina Geneve has got its inspiration from the well – known Extreme Avalanche Regulator but it is provided with its own different features like: a smaller case designed to fit perfectly the dial, an automatic AL – 950 regulator caliber beating at 28,800 vib/h created so that it could offer a 48 – hour power reserve.

         From a mix of technical complexities and sport particularities, Alpina Geneva managed to realize not a wrist watch, but a timepiece, and probably one of the most uttermost creations in history. What makes Alpina Geneve even more unique is the fact that this model is produced in limited edition, you can find only 18 pieces, and the price is about $50.000. This new wrist watch – Alpina Geneve – has the honour to be among other luxurious watches and participate at this year`s edition of Baselworld.

        The Alpina diver`s collection has been joined by four new interpretations of its highly successful Extreme Diver 1000 Meters model initially initiated in 2008. Now the four diver`s watches from the 2009 spring- summer collection. The new timepieces establish most voguish colors: Orange Sunset- a warn color which will make you think of a sunset on the beach, Yellowtail – a bright yellow color inspired by that of diving bottles, Black Ocean – a black felt at the depths of the ocean, and Cote d` Azur- a clear blue color of the Mediterranean Sea.

        The Alpina Extreme Diver 1000 Meters watches are addressed to those who like sport because of its sporty design. The watch have maintained the technical characteristics of the forerunners, providing perfect readability and absolute water resistance.

        The Alpina Extreme Diver 1000 Meters watches have a black PVD steel case which measures 48 mm in diameter. The case construction contains an unidirectional rotating bezel completed with a luminous minute scale, with a luminous triangle marker at 12 o` clock. The bezel is used for measuring elapsed time in minutes for the first fifteen minutes and in ten- minute segments afterwards. At 10 o ` clock you are able to observe an automatic helium valve , a great opportunity of a diver`s watch. The escape valve, used during the decompression stop, dependably defend the movement of the Alpina watch, keeping it away from helium atoms which can perforate the case, and after expanding and damaging the timepiece.

        The Alpina Extreme Diver 1000 Meters watch is inspired by an automatic movement, caliber AL- 525 . The movement offers a 42- hour power reserve. It incorporates a distinctive black Alpina oscillating weight. The sapphire crystal case back reveals the punctilious finishing of the movement. The black dial is characterized by perfect readability highly requested by professional divers. It features the signature triangle pattern in the center. It is completed with Arabic numerals, hands and applied indexes, coated with Super Luminova and in the color evidencing the color of the watch version. Near three o` clock there is a half- moon aperture for the date function.

        The prices are accessible for everybody even though you are not well paid.

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        The maximum legibility offered by the Alpina Extreme for Andros Trophy Winners is accentuated by the generous proportions of the case (48 mms diameter). Visible through the sapphire bottom, the mechanical movement is a true pleasure for the eyes decorated bridges, turned blue screws and treated wheels black DEVELOPING COUNTRY.

        Alpina Extreme for Andros Trophy Winners is an extreme sport spirit! Reliability of the movement with manual reassembly, case tight to 200 m, crowns screwed glass sapphire the requirement for solidity of Alpina makes watch “Avalanche” the allied one of the enthusiasts for big thrills. While launching its first watches “Regulators” with Unitas movement in 2005, Alpina asserted already a glorious history with a key resolutely current and definitively turned towards the future.

        In 2008, Alpina joins again with its history of clock making manufacture, which was at the origin of its success near the amateurs of clock making mechanics but also at the professionals of the trade, while launching its gauge manufactures (AL-950) in a watch called Alpina Manufacture Regulator.

        A glance on the past certainly, but with the technique and the design of today.
A delicate mixture which wants to be “wise a little more” that its product headlight: Alpina Extreme Avalanche Regulator Full Black, which is at the origin of the fabulous return of the mark on the front of the clock making scene.
The “extreme” size of his/her older sister was re-examined with the fall and passes now to the sizeable size nevertheless of 46mm.

        But that the aficionados of the mark are reassured: the box takes again the drawing angular and impossible to circumvent of the Extreme series. On the other hand, a design of dial more worked and all in dimension come to embellish this watch.

        The movement of Alpina Extreme for Andros Trophy Winners entirely developed in the workshops of the Genevese manufacture of Plan-the-Waddings, went up automatically thanks to the rotor emblematic of the mark which returns a proud safety to the originators (Straub & Co) of the first automatic gauge Alpina of 1945, the 582. Like the whole of the mechanical collection of watches of Alpina, the movement is visible through the bottom sapphire.

        Two years of work and research made it possible to the clock and watch makers of Alpina to create the new Movement Manufactures Alpina with Date the Alpina Extreme for Andros Trophy Winners. In the middle of its recently built manufacture with Plan-the-Waddings, the ambition of all the team of Alpina made it possible this dream to succeed.

        The team of specialists broken with the development in movements and in love with the clock industry worked during more than two years to the realization of this movement. Thanks to machines of precision and avant-gardists, some even improved for the needs for the company, each one collaborated giving again in Alpina its fame of manufacture.

        The idea of a gauge of manufacture however does not go back to yesterday. When in 2002, the two cofounders of Frederique Constant, Aletta and Peter Stas begin again celebrates it Swiss mark Alpina, their ambition is to propose sporting watches of high quality resistant to the shocks inherent with many sports.

Alpina Avalanche Extreme for Andros Trophy Winners

     With the hit-parade clock and watch maker, it is clear that the Avalanche Extreme Regulator of Alpina is extremely likely to be classified among five large successes of the year, in any case in France. The proof, in addition to the network of traditional distributors, this watch is from now on available in the two temples impossible to circumvent of the Parisian fashion: At Colette and the Scout.

     Actually, all started in April 2006, in Basle, at the time of the great annual appointment of the entire clock making profession. At the time, the whole of the commercial team of Templus (importing of Alpina in France) cracks for this new model… A broad extra size (48mm of diameter), a futuristic design, a good mechanism (bases visible Unitas 6498 through the sapphire bottom: decorated bridges, turned blue screws and treated wheels black DEVELOPING COUNTRY) and use of the “regulator” (see definition in framed below) which adds a key of mystery and a considerable charm to the unit.

     This concept appeared in the middle of the 18th century. It acted at the time of a clock of precision on which the three traditional measuring units, the hour, the minute and the second, occupied of the distinct sites.
The marine chronometers, animated by an arise-engine, presented them also the same provision. If the indications were offset, there was with that a reason of an obvious simplicity: the “slow” needle of the hours was not to harm too a long time the good legibility of the needle of the seconds (small, certainly, but nevertheless essential) when it was positioned in the lower part of the dial.
This is why a specific interior dial was allotted to him, where it was not likely to compete with the other needles. This characteristic also explains the rotation isolated from the needle of the minutes in the middle of the dial.

     Admittedly, first of all, one is disconcerted a little when it is a question of reading the hour: each of the three functions – hours, minutes, and seconds is read indeed on a different meter. But one is accustomed very quickly to this system of which the legibility is accentuated thanks to the generous proportions of the case.
For the model Full Black, the coating black DEVELOPING COUNTRY checkmate increases the hardness of steel and guarantees a scratch resistance.

     Let us specify finally that this sporting tight with 200 meters profits from a quality ratio/quite simply unbeatable price: 1.450 euros for the model steel and 1.800 euros for the model Full Black or “pink gold” if you were not yet completely allured.
     Case Stainless steel treaty black DEVELOPING COUNTRY, diameter 48 mm, freezes sapphire, transparent bottom screwed out of sapphire, seal to 200 m (20 ATM), screwed crown, individual number engraved on the bottom, glasses and crown decorated with the triangle, historical symbol of Alpina.

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