Both blue options feature snailed registers, while the silver toned dial is endowed with understated, smooth black counters.ДЄ 30-minute chronograph register is positioned adjacent the crown, with a small seconds display located opposite.

Everything is balanced and symmetrical, proffering a more harmonious appearance than the ubiquitous tri-compax dial. Each hour is denoted with a faceted baton incorporating a soupГ§on of luminescent treatment.Д®ven the most exuberant version, with its blue dial accentuated with red details, still confers a sense calm, courtesy of its bi-compax dial design. They are comparatively slender but clearly convey the prevailing time. The pencil hour and minute hands are lined with luminescent treatment. Image вЂ“ AL-727LNS4H6 (blue dial with red accents) Each version has a distinct character and, despite spending an inordinate amount of time appraising each model, I cannot proclaim my love for one reference at the exclusion of another. Prospective purchasers are indulged with a choice of three dial options, blue, blue with red accents and silver with contrasting black detail. This case design now appears on this new Alpina, referencing the past while wholeheartedly embracing the future. For example, the watch brand released several versions of the Seastrong model, endowed with an unusually shaped case.

The new Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage Chronograph perpetuates this reputation and incorporates some design codes first seen in the 1970s. Angus Davies appraises this handsome watch, the latest addition to the brandвЂ™sВ Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage collection, at close quarters.ДЄlpina, the Swiss luxury marque, was founded in 1883 and has a rich history of making sports watches. The Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage Chronograph features a bi-compax dial layout, 1970s inspired case and a monopusher. It's a watch that's bold but by no means brash with the 60-minute uni-directional bezel dominating offering a satisfying click when it's rotated.Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage Chronograph It's a diver-style watch, but it's only waterproof up to 100 metres depth so you're not going to do a lot of deep sea diving with it. They feel like high quality watches and there's no doubt they look every bit worth the 595 Euros (around ВЈ480) it'll cost to get your hands on one.

Picking it up in any of its four colours (black, green, orange and navy blue) and despite the undeniably sporty, rugged man-friendly look, they all still retain enough style to match up nicely with a good suit. This is a hybrid inspired by Alpina's Diver 300 Automatic collection and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.

The philosophy remains the same: make a hybrid that looks like a normal watch and discreetly smuggle in the smarts so no one will notice. While the partnership has ended, the hybrid smartwatches have not, and the Alpina Seastrong Horological smartwatch is the latest addition to the family. Just as Fossil is spreading the smartwatch love to the many brands under its umbrella, Swiss company Union HorlogГЁre is doing something similar, but on a smaller scale.ДЄlpina, along with Frederique Constant, has been part of Horologere's big smartwatch push since its joint venture with Fullpower Technologies, building the Horological Smartwatch Open Platform that has underpinned its first generation connected watches.

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