THE RED TRIANGLE FLEXES ITS MUSCLES
The Swiss brand has unveiled two new steel models featuring a complication dear to dynamic souls, and beating to the energetic rhythm of an automatic movement, in the heart of “the city that never sleeps”.
Far from the Swiss shores of Leman Lake, where its headquarters are located, Alpina has flown to New York to inaugurate a new boutique on the prestigious Fifth Avenue, which it shares with its sister brands belonging to the Citizen Watch America group. For the Geneva-based company, this latest step in CWA’s strategy represents the opportunity to present in “the city that never sleeps” a muscly version, or rather, two muscly versions of its sports watch successfully redesigned in 2022: Alpiner Extreme Chronograph Automatic.
A complication dear to dynamic souls who are always on the move, short-time measurement is a matter of course on the dial, which features Alpina‘s signature triangular motif and three azure counters at the bottom. Dressed in white for the midnight-blue model or black for the light-gray variant, these sub-dials feature dauphine-style hands highlighted by a line of Super-LumiNova®, as do the central hour and minute markers and the applied hour-markers curved by a matching flange. The second hand powering the two totalizers (minutes at 3 o’clock and hours at 6 o’clock) bears the famous red triangle as a counterweight. A small seconds hand at 9 o’clock and a date display in a metal-framed window at 4:30 complete the time information.
These functions are clocked by the automatic AL-730 caliber, which beats at the standard 4hz frequency and delivers more than two days of power reserve. Its blackened oscillating weight is visible through the transparent back of the steel case. Cushion shaped with generous dimensions (41×42.4mm and 14.30mm thick), the sturdy case naturally integrates the two elongated pushers that control the chronograph and echo the gently angular overall silhouette, including the reinforcement along its left flank. For added comfort on the wrist, the Alpiner Extreme Chronograph Automatic is worn with a steel link bracelet and folding clasp secured by a pair of buttons.
