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07 June 2016 |
Alpina,
When someone talks about professional watches, you immediately think about diver’s watches or observation watches but there are also specific timepieces that have made a particular profession their own mission in life and that has rightly enabled them to become part of that huge volume of facts and events that ...
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10 January 2016 |
Alpina,
Buying Watches,
Hand Winding Watches,
Aviator Watches,
Watch Reviews,
Alpina produces aviators' watches since the 1920s Do you own a diver's watch, a three-counter, a timepiece with retrograde indications, a Reverso and a Sixy-Nine but you are still not the proud owner of real aviator's watch? No problem; the Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage MK III that you can see in ...
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25 February 2014 |
Alpina,
Baselworld 2014,
It is a great pleasure to write about the Alpina brand again, bringing you the first available information on two new timepieces which are part of what is considered to be the most representative line up of this brand, the Aviation collection: the Startimer Pilot Chrono Automatic “Black Star” and ...
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11 July 2013 |
Alpina,
Orange is the most highly visible of all the colours in the spectrum, and particularly so when set against a dark, contrasting background. Water is responsible for the attenuation of light due to absorption. In other words, as one goes deeper on a dive, the water absorbs more color. Color ...
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11 May 2013 |
Alpina,
Since 1883, the contribution of Alpina to the Swiss watchmaking industry has been in the innovation of caliber and watch production methods and organisation. It can be rightly said that the "Alpina Union Horlogère", whose members were called "Alpinists", was the ancestor of today's modern Swiss watch groups. With the ...
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