Giving a luxury watch as a gift is perfect anytime of the year. The new Alpiner Quartz GMT luxury sports watch models from Alpina, are both stylish and functional. The introduction of these three new models, also features GMT function. As a result, the release further enhances the value of the Alpiner Quartz collection.

Back in 1933, exactly 50 years after Alpina was founded, the struggling Swiss company launched its now legendary design – the “Block Uhr.” THe watch line offered anti-magnetic, anti-shock and water-resistant qualities. It came in a stunning stainless steel case. The Block Uhr was definitely more than a simple watch.

Indeed, it established the basic principles of the sports watch. Created in 1938, the Alpina 4 collection incorporated elements that are now globally recognized. Now 80 years later, as the essential features of an “outdoor” watch.

In 1933, exactly 50 years after Alpina was founded, the fledgling Swiss company launched its now legendary design, the “Block Uhr”. With its anti-magnetic, anti-shock and water-resistant qualities and stainless steel case, it was more than a simple watch. Indeed, it established the basic principles of the sports watch. The Alpina 4 collection, created in 1938, incorporated elements that are now globally recognised, some 80 years on, as the essential features of an “outdoor” watch.

Now it’s the introduction of the GMT function to the collection. The stylish Alpiner Quartz GMT is truly the heir apparent.

The latest Alpiner Quartz GMT follows in the footsteps of its sporting predecessors. Its quartz technology gives it almost 4 years of precision time-keeping. Plusit it also ensures that Alpina’s authentic Swiss-made timepieces are highly affordable. The result is without sacrificing the technology or finishes for which the brand is famous. Prices start at only 895 euros.

The introduction of these three new Alpiner Quartz GMT models with GMT function, further enhances the value of the Alpiner Quartz collection. Moreover, it allows travel enthusiasts to keep a close eye on the time at home. This fact is critical when contacting friends and family. In addition, equally important when arranging meetings across different time zones. Or simply readjusting your biological clock at the end of a long journey.

Whether it’s a birthday, job promotion or just saying you love someone, the stylish new Alpiner Quartz GMT sports watch makes the ideal gift.

The Life of Luxury works with many of the most respected luxury watch brands in the world. Let us help you locate one. Stop by again and follow our popular luxury blog.

Photo: Alpina

Alpina has announced the release of their 2016 Seastrong Diver Heritage watch. For those not aware, Alpina is a family-owned, fine watchmaking brand located in Geneva, Switzerland. The Swiss watch manufacturer has been in business for greater than 130 years. Alpina was founded in 1883 and is widely recognized for its red triangle signature.

The Swiss watchmaker first introduced its “Seastrong 10” Super Compressor diving watch over 50 years ago. The latest release is the Seastrong Diver Heritage and it is quite an impressive watch. It’s a Swiss watchmaking classic watch first appearing in 1942, now with a modern interpretation.

The challenge Alpina faced many years ago was their customers wanted water-resistant cases. The result of endless research and development was the classic Alpina 4 watch. The number 4 represented the 4 high quality characteristics.
1) The timepiece had antimagnetic properties.
2) An “Incabloc” impact protection device actually protected the delicate pivots of the balance wheel from any breakage.
3) The highly resilient watch case was made from stainless steel.
4) The Alpina 4 came in a “Geneva” type water-resistant case. Its specially designed crown was patented.

But to become a genuine diving watch, Alpina had to continue with years of development. German specialist magazine Uhrmacher-Woche stated, “When the water-resistant watch came on the market 15 years ago, some people thought it was just another crazy fashion or a sales gimmick. After all it is not absolutely necessary to wear your watch in the bath.”

The importance of an accurate divers watch cannot be minimized. Air supply is is critical to any diver due it being limited. When gone, it’s obviously a huge problem. One important feature of any diving watch is the ability to clearly see the hours, minutes and seconds. So diving wristwatches are made with bold, illuminated dials and hands. In addition, these specialty watches include a helpful rotating bezel. The rotating bezel is only turned in an anticlockwise direction. This prevents accidentally increasing the remaining time the diver can stay under water.

The new Seastrong Diver Heritage watch from Alpina is an impressive looking diving watch, that is quite stylish as well. The watch’s 60 minute division is not just for divers. The arrow can be easily moved and as hour hand approaches, can be a signal that your parking meter is about to expire or an important deadline is nearing.

The watch case of the Seastrong Diver Heritage is now an impressive 42 millimetres and made from classic stainless steel. The screwed case back case will resist water pressure up to 30 bar or a diving depth of 300 m/1000ft. To ensure highly accurate timekeeping, the new Alpina watch utilizes the modern AL-525 automatic calibre.

The balance wheel completes 28,800 vibrations per hour. The watch also has 38 hours of power reserve when fully wound. The high level of craftsmanship and attention to detail are very evident. You have several dial style options to choose from. A dark option conveys an elegant look, while the light-dark contrast model is ideal for someone wanting to go a little retro.

If you are interested in purchasing the new Seastrong Diver Heritage watch from Alpina or any luxury watch, contact us today. Our goal is to share current watch industry news and product releases. Read our luxury blog for the latest updates.

Photo: Alpina

Founded in 1883 in Geneva, Switzerland, Alpina is a family-owned fine watchmaking manufacture, known for its red triangle signature. Alpina announced the Seastrong Diver 300 Chronograph Big Date diving watch.

Alpina diving watches have long been popular, starting back in the 1960’s. Back then the popular Seastrong “10” diving watch allowed divers to go down to depths of 200m or 660ft. The new Seastrong Diver 300 Chronograph Big Date watch is a top, readable professional diving chronograph range. The watch is water-resistant, down to 300m or 1000ft.

The Seastrong Diver 300 Chronograph Big Date by Alpna has unique, colored unidirectional turning diving bezels. In addition the diving watch’s oversized minute hand is perfect for optimum, diving time readability.

The Extreme Diver 300 watch was carefully designed to include all of the necessary features allowing watch owners to obtain the important information they require. The goal is to provide valuable info when a diver needs it and help them enjoy a safe dive.

The new Alpina watch features an aluminum, unidirectional, turning bezel that turns in only a anti-clockwise direction. Therefore the number of elapsed minutes can only be increased and never accidentally decreased.

The Alpina Seastrong Diver 300 Chronograph Big Date watch utilizes the AL-372 Swiss High Precision Quartz Chronograph movement. This movement is incredibly precise and reliable to 1/10th of second. The watch features a Swiss quartz chronograph movement with 30 and 10 hour chronograph counters. In addition, the watch comes with a standard battery life of 48 months, plus both add and split functions and a big date display.

On the bezel are 60 minutes markers which are luminous,. The dial indexes are also luminous which makes a great contrast versus the watch dial’s matte black finish. The hands of the Alpina diving watch are luminous as well, This allows maximum readability even in very low visibility conditions. The watch also comes with an over-sized minute hand so you can safely read the important diving time.

The Seastrong Diver 300 Chronograph Big Date is perfect for divers and the new watch from Alpina comes in four different models and each with a different color of bezel – grey, bordeaux, orange and navy blue.

If you would like to purchase the new Seastrong Diver 300 Chronograph Big Date diving watch from Alpina, contact us today. Follow this luxury blog to read about other luxury watch releases and the latest news in the watch industry.

Photo: Alpina

At the recently completed BASELWORLD 2015 show in Switzerland, SWISS sport watch maker Alpina announced the new Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph watch.

Alpina was founded way back in 1883, and has been a pioneer of the Swiss watchmaking industry for over 130 years. As a premier designer and manufacturer of both wristwatches and pocket-watches, Alpina announced the luxury brand’s first chronograph that developed and produced in-house – the Calibre AL-760. The design utilizes the AL-710 rotor calibre with a balance frequency of 4 Hertz, centre seconds, in addition to a date hand at the 6 o’clock position.

The pressing action of the new Calibre AL-760 is very smooth, as well as both the stopping and resetting operations. Another feature is the column wheel that rotates on bearings that controls the three start, stop and reset functions. The winding rotor also operates in both directions.

The key part in all chronographs is the clutch. Repeating pressing of the start/stop push-piece causes slight pivoting of the clutch lever. The rotations of the chronograph hand are “recorded” by the 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock.

In 1938, when the iconic “Alpina 4” sports watch was introduced, the figure “4” represented four unique characteristics at the same time:
1) – Antimagnetic
2) – Water-resistant “Geneva” case
3) – Incabloc shock protection, and
4) – Use of non-rusting stainless steel for the highly robust case.

The new Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph luxury watch by Alpina features a sporty and elegant stainless steel case. There is a screw-down winding and setting crown, plus a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal that measures 45 millimetres in diameter.

You will find a counter at the 3 o’clock position that adds cumulative times up to 30 minutes. At 9 o’clock, the permanent-seconds hand rotates normally. The Super-LumiNova-highlighted dial from Alpina showcases the date hand at the 6 o’clock position. Lastly, the watch hands are luminous at night.

The Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph watch can withstand water pressure of up to 10 atmospheres, which is similar to a diving depth of 100 metres. The watch’s crown and push-piece are placed in in a straight line, despite the modular construction. of the calibre AL-760.

The Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph wristwatch by Alpina comes in either a stainless steel bracelet or alligator strap.

If you are a luxury watch connoisseur and interested in purchasing the new Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph watch from Alpina, contact us today. If you enjoy reading about new luxury watch announcements, come back to follow our popular luxury blog.

Photo: Alpina

Back in 1963, luxury watch brand Alpina first introduced the Comtesse lady watch collection with automatic movements. Rich in tradition and offering fine lady watches since the 1920’s, Alpina is bringing back the Comtesse Lady watch line.

Offering both elegance and sportiness, the new Alpina Comtesse watch line for women embodies chic style. Its characteristics include luxury, Swissness, simplicity and unique character.

The Comtesse women’s watch features a 3 links bracelet blend along with a mother of pearl dial that is beautifully adorned with diamonds or drop shaped indexes. The lady’s luxury watch comes with a rounded, polished stainless steel bezel with an option with including diamonds or not.

Tina Maze is the Ambassadress for the Alpina Comtesse watch collection. Tina is a double Olympic ski champion in Sochi and like Alpina, strives for a alpine lifestyle and elegance.

The Contesse watch comes in a stunning two-tone version that features gorgeous a bezel with 48 diamonds that are set on a gold plated bezel in addition to a mother or pearl dial with 6 diamonds. The yellow PVD bezel version of the lady’s watch showcases 6 diamonds on the mother of pearl dial. Both luxury watch versions offer a stainless steel metal bracelet plus a yellow PVD central link.

The Comtesse in stainless steel surrounds an AL-525 automatic mechanical movement that includes 26 jewels. The fine watch has a power reserve of 38 hours plus is water-resistant up to 5ATM (50m, 150ft).

If you are interested in purchasing the new Comtesse lady watch from Alpina or another luxury watch, please contact us. We can assist in helping you search and buy the perfect watch that you desire. Read our luxury blog to hear about the latest luxury watch news and product releases.

In support of water conservation, the fine watchmaking brand Alpina, in 2014 committed to the Swiss foundation RACE FOR WATER with its ambassador, Aurélien Ducroz.

Aurélien Ducroz is the two-time world freeride skiing champion and 4th arriving skipper in the last Transat Jacques Vabre transatlantic race. Future ski expeditions and races will be done at the service of the much deserving foundation.

RACE FOR WATER Foundation fights hard for the preservation of both freshwater and oceans. The organization rallies the business, education, plus scientific communities towards this important objective.

The project’s goal is to let skier Aurélien Ducroz provide information to help understand of the evolution of seas and oceanic climate. Effort will be made to deploy and recover scientific Argos markers. Exploring territories where the sea and the mountains meet, will be made accessible by sailboat and he will also explore on skis.

Swiss luxury watchmaker Alpina created a special, limited edition watch – Alpiner “4” Chronograph “Race for Water”. Only 400 models will be available for sale worldwide. The stunning Alpiner “4” Chronograph “Race for Water” watch was designed in the foundation’s colors.

Alpina is an independent, family-owned fine watchmaking company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Alpina was founded over 130 years ago in 1883.

Aurélien Ducroz has proudly served as Alpina ambassador for the Race for Water Foundation since October 2013, when he signed the “Water Guardian” charter.

The RACE FOR WATER Foundation is an organization dedicated to water preservation, in addition to attempting to educating and raising public awareness about both the pollution of lakes and oceans by plastic and the preservation of freshwater.

If you are interested in supporting the RACE FOR WATER Foundation and purchasing the new Alpiner “4” Chronograph “Race for Water” watch by Alpina, please contact us today. Keep abreast of other luxury watch news releases by following this luxury blog.

The current Alpiner Collection line of luxury watches from Swiss maker Alpina, is influenced by an Alpiner automatic model from the 1950’s. Two new watches include the Alpiner Automatic and Alpiner Automatic Chronograph.

Each luxury watch features clean lines and a stylish dial design. They also offer the classic reliability and high quality you expect in a luxury watch. Alpina has been manufacturing fine watches since they invented the modern, sports watch back in 1938.

The new Alpiner Collection by Alpina is simply the elegance of sports and fine craftsmanship from a Swiss watchmaker.

The new watch collection features a combination of the “glass box” sapphire crystal with the dome shaped sunray finish dial with a clear cut case and lugs. The result is stunning as it gives the stylish Alpiner watches a unique classic look but at the same time, appear quite contemporary. The watch’s 3-link bracelet also adds the unique combination of elegance and performance.

Alpiner Automatic (AL-525)
The Alpiner Automatic sports watch from Alpina encases the AL-525 automatic 3 hands date movement. This incredible watch has a 41.5 mm diameter is available in three sunray finished dial colors: silvered, grey plus black. The dial also has rose gold colored indexes and numerals which can be seen under the anti-reflective treated “Glass Box” sapphire crystal.The new Alpiner Automatic comes in stainless steel, in addition to bi-color, stainless steel yellow PVD coated versions. Customers can also choose between a stainless steel or genuine leather bracelet.

Alpiner Automatic Chronograph (AL-750)
The new Alpiner Automatic Chronograph sports watch from Alpina is engineered similarly to the Alpiner Automatic watch. The handsome looking Alpiner Automatic Chronograph surrounds the AL-750 chronograph movement. It comes with a telemeter scale on the watch dial to assist with time-distance calculations. This new luxury sports watch from Alpina is available in four different dial variants, including: black, silvered, silvered with grey “eyes” plus grey. The watch also features rose gold colored indexes and numerals. The stainless steel case is 41.5 mm in diameter and can be purchased with either a stainless steel or genuine leather bracelet.

On the back of either Apliner watch model is the engraving of the iconic Alpina “3 summits” symbol. This classic symbol represents the mighty Swiss mountain peeks – Jungfrau, the Monch and the Eiger. This style has been the Alpine brand signature since 1883.

If you are interested in purchasing one of the new Alpiner Automatic and Alpiner Automatic Chronograph Watch from Alpina, please contact The Life of Luxury. Stay on top of luxury watch news by following our luxury blog.

Luxury Swiss watch maker, Alpina has introduced its new “Alpiner 4” luxury watch collection. Alpina is recognized as the inventor of the modern, Swiss sports watch when they developed the iconic “Alpina 4” back in 1938.

The stunning new Alpiner 4 watch is dedicated to the world of Alpine sports. The goal of this new Alpina 4 watch collection from Alpina was to merge the four primary features of a sport watch into a single watch case – antishock, antimagnetic, water-resistant plus stainless steel.

This lofty goal by Alpina founder Gottlieb Hauser was successfully achieved with the original Alpina 4 Swiss watch. This led to Alpina targeting the whole vertical Alpine sports environment market, covering everything from mountain climbing to alpine lake diving.

The new Alpiner 4 watch collection features the Alpiner 4 Chronograph model which is available in a choice of two dial options – silver of black. The watch can be fitted with either a stainless steel bracelet or an alligator strap.

The “Bi-Compax” Chronograph model is equipped with a precise, AL-860 automatic chronograph movement and an  automatic GMT model encases the new Alpina AL-550 GMT movement that features an in-house GMT/24H module.

The Alpiner 4 is also water-resistant to a depth of 100m or 330ft. Each model displays the well known “4” company logo on the watch dial. The number represents all 4 sports qualities. In addition, the Alpiner 4 features a 360 degree turning compass bezel.

If you’d like to purchase the new Alpiner 4 luxury watch from Aplina, contact The Life of Luxury. Keep up with the latest luxury watch news by following our luxury blog.

As Baselworld 2014 nears (March 27 to April 3), Alpina just introduced a new luxury watch – Startimer Pilot Automatic Chronograph “Black Star”.

The stylish, all black Alpina Startimer Pilot ”Black Star” watch is an addition to the iconic Alpina “Startimer Pilot” professional pilot collection.

The new Alpina luxury watch features a black PVD coated stainless steel case, an applied minutes ring, applied numerals, plus beautiful “sunray” dial finishing.

The “Black Star” model adds luxury finishes that are typically found on elegant watches, in addition to all the professional pilot features the Alpina Startimer Collection is recognized for.

The Startimer Automatic Chronograph includes the Alpina AL-860 Caliber, which offers Alpina AL-860 Automatic Chronograph movement with “Bi-Compax” 60 seconds and 30 minutes small counter layout.

The case-back of the new Alpina Startimer Pilot Automatic Chronograph “Black Star” watch is transparent. The case is 44mm in size and is 100m (300ft) water-resistant.

The watch’s “Bi-Compax” dial layout is perfect for time readability, which is a requirement for professional pilot watches.

What we really like about this luxury watch from Alpina is how the ”stealth” black case color along with the luxury dial finishes produces an ideal combination of strict pilot functionalities and an elegant watch design.

Alpina has a long reputation of manufacturing high quality, aviation watches. In the first 50 years of the past century Alpina was both the manufacturer and official supplier of military aviation watches to continental air forces.

If you are interested in purchasing the new Alpina Startimer Pilot Automatic Chronograph “Black Star” watch, please contact The Life of Luxury.