Winners of the MCQ contest organized by the FSMP
Each year, the Swiss Federation of Professional Mechanics organizes an MCQ contest for the students who are in their last year of training. Between February and June, students had to login, and answer...
View ArticleMeet our commercial director: Niels Eggerding
Could you start by giving us your name and your occupation? My name is Niels Eggerding and I’m the commercial director of Frederique Constant and Alpina watches. Have you always been passionate about...
View ArticleThe Alpina Christmas watches selection
Christmas is just round the corner Alpinist! If you are running behind on your Christmas presents, then this is the time to have a look at our curated Christmas selection. We identified four watches,...
View ArticleTHE NEW ALPINA STARTIMER PILOT BIG DATE PROFESSIONAL PILOT WATCHES
THE NEW ALPINA STARTIMER PILOT BIG DATE PROFESSIONAL PILOT WATCHES Swiss luxury sports watch manufacturer Alpina, is delighted to present you the new Startimer Pilot Big Date models. Alpina has used...
View ArticleALPINA HOROLOGICAL SMARTWATCH FOR LADIES
ALPINA AND FREDERIQUE CONSTANT ANNOUNCE THE SWISS HOROLOGICAL SMARTWATCH, POWERED BY MOTIONX® The Horological Smartwatch: the bridge between Silicon Valley and the Swiss watch industry. Powered by...
View ArticleALPINA WATCHES ATHLETE PATRICK SWEENEY ESTABLISHES WORLD FIRST ON THE EVEREST
GENEVA, 10.03.2015: Alpina Watches athlete and Brand Ambassador Patrick Sweeney, a technology entrepreneur turned adventurer, reached Everest Base Camp by mountain bike at 09:45 Nepal time on Monday 24...
View ArticleBASELWORLD 2015 – ALPINA MILESTONE: THE “ALPINER 4 MANUFACTURE FLYBACK...
Alpina is no stranger to the chronograph. The traditional Swiss company has been familiar with pocket-watches and wristwatches endowed with an additional stop function for over a hundred years....
View ArticleBASELWORLD 2015 – LAUNCH OF A NEW ALPINA HOROLOGICAL SMARTWATCH
ALPINA IS PROUDLY INTRODUCING ANOTHER HOROLOGICAL SMARTWATCH MODEL FOR LADIES IN BASELWORLD 2015. With a dial design completely « horological » and proposed with a silver finishing, the new released...
View ArticleAURÉLIEN DUCROZ, WINS THE 2015 XTREME VERBIER
AURÉLIEN DUCROZ, ALPINA WATCHES AMBASSADOR, WINS THE 2015 XTREME VERBIER, HIS FOURTH VICTORY OF THIS LEGENDARY FREERIDE COMPETITION BY CONQUERING THE BEC DES ROSSES FOR THE FOURTH TIME AND WINNING THE...
View ArticleMELISSA ARNOT IS ATTEMPTING TO BE THE FIRST AMERCIAN WOMAN TO SUMMIT THE...
MELISSA ARNOT IS ATTEMPTING TO BE THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO SUMMIT MOUNT EVEREST WITHOUT SUPPLEMENTARY OXYGEN AND WILL TRACK HER EFFORT WITH THE ALPINA HOROLOGICAL SMARTWATCH Melissa Arnot 31 year...
View ArticleMATTERHORN ULTRAKS SKIALP 2015 – UNE DEUXIEME PREMIERE
Aujourd’hui, l’édition hivernale du Matterhorn Ultraks a vécu une deuxième première à Zermatt. Sur les faces du Rothorn, ce sont les stars locales qui se sont imposées, laissant loin derrière leurs...
View ArticleInterview of our Ambassador Aurelien Ducroz
Our ambassador Aurelien Ducroz, came to visit us at our Manufacture in Plan-les-ouates last week. He had the chance to discover the First Horological Smartwatch. It was also the occasion for us to...
View ArticleSecond part of the interview with our Ambassador Aurelien Ducroz
Read the second part of our interview with our Our ambassador Aurelien Ducroz when he came to visit us at our Manufacture. The ski season is nearly over, what are you going to do after? Do you have...
View ArticleEuropean Championships – a shower of medals at Zegama
Today, the Basque town of Zegama hosted the 2015 Skyrunning European Championships and it was unsurprisingly the host country that came out tops with a gold, two silver and two bronze medals in this...
View ArticleALPINA&ICE LEGACY PROJECT SUCCESSFUL GLACIER CROSSING N°2
Polar Explorers and Alpina Watches Ambassadors Børge Ousland and Vicent Colliard, complete the crossing of the Stikine ice-field unsupported. ON THE 23RD OF MAY 2015, POLAR EXPLORATION LEGEND, BØRGE...
View ArticleDAY 1 08/05/2015 THE WHITE MOUNTAIN GOAT WONDERED.
Børge and I left Juneau this morning on a boat with captain Eric as we had the plan to be dropped off near by a glacier branch called Sawyer, located in the North of the Stikine ice-field. As we...
View ArticleDAY 2 09/05/2015 IN THE CLAWS OF SAWYER.
An intense 11 hours day… Started the day carrying our equipment towards the ice. On this kind of unsupported expedition, we were not able to carry all our gear in one go, so we needed to load half of...
View ArticleDAY 3 10/05/2015 SAWYER, THE BEAST!
Back to carrying. We had to get out of Sawyer ice because we couldn’t find any possible way to travel. There were big chunk of ice big as cathedrals. ”It’s chaos around here” I shouted while being...
View ArticleDAY 4 11/05/2015 SAWYER AGAIN.
The possible snow field that we saw yesterday was indeed practicable. We even got to try our skies… until we had to use crampons again and find a way through all this crevasses. “Huge!!” declared...
View ArticleDAY 5 12/05/2015 AVALANCHE PATH.
We have been skiing rope-less for the whole morning and enjoyed the freedom of it. The weather was just perfect today! Considering our slow progression so far, we definitely needed ”Mother Nature” to...
View ArticleDAY 6 13/05/2015 SAWYER IN OUR BACK!
Weather was very cooperative again on day 6. We have been skiing 28 kilometers on the South part of Sawyer. This very challenging area is now in our back. We definitely needed to find out where this...
View ArticleDAY 7 14/05/2015 LET’S PLAY IT SAFE.
The weather was still beautiful here on Stikine ice field. We started the day with the intention to ski down a narrow valley which would bring us down to Dawes area on a quite straight itinerary....
View ArticleDAY 8 15/05/2015 TRYING TO FIND A ROUTE ON THE ICE OF DAWES.
Stikine was very special compared to other icecaps. Usually, the entrance and the exit points of icecaps are the most critical places to ski across. And the middle of the ice is basically the safest...
View ArticleDAY 9 16/05/2015 30 KILOMETERS UPHILL ON DAWES.
Yesterday has been an amazing day, skiing for 11 hours in between camp 8 and camp 9. We used the rope in the beginning to travel through safely but manage to ski freely the rest of the day on the...
View ArticleDAY 10 17/05/2015 HEADING SOUTH TOWARDS GREAT GLACIER.
At this point of the expedition, we had some chances of success but we still needed to be very focused. The satellite images were precious information for navigation and they allowed us to find quickly...
View ArticleDAY 11 18/05/2015 GETTING CLOSER TO GREAT GLACIER!
Again great conditions here in Stikine with a beautiful weather. On the way we could have seen an optional exit point called Patterson in case we could not go out either in Le Conte or Great glacier....
View ArticleDAY 12 19/05/2015 FIRST ATTEMPT TO GREAT GLACIER, ABORTED.
Woke up at 03.00 this morning in order to have colder conditions. It means hard snow, less avalanches and risk of ice falls reduced. So we speeded up our way hoping to reach the start point of our way...
View ArticleDAY 13 20/05/2015 LAST CHANCE.
Woke up at 03 am again. We could definitely feel the tension that morning. We tried to be as much efficient as we could. The sooner down in a safe place is the best. The ice doesn’t like the warmth. We...
View ArticleDAY 14 21/05/2015 BUT WE CAN SEE THE WATER OF THE LAKE.
Challenges were not over. Ahead of us was the exit branch of the icecap. We have been skiing, abseiling and struggling on Great glacier for about 10 hours today but we managed to go through. This is...
View ArticleDAY 15 22/05/2015 THE ICE CALLED US BACK. WHAT ?
What a day ! We started this morning packing our backpacks hoping to get out of the glacier. Our goal was to reach the top of a 900 meter mountain before going down on the other side and camp near by...
View ArticleDAY 16 23/05/2015 MADE IT !!
Left the ice this morning and spent the day paddling across the lake, then carrying our gear across the forest and finally paddling again on the Stikine river. When Borge and I arrived on the 16th day...
View ArticleDAY 17 24/05/2015 AND WE GOT PICKED UP BY A BOAT
Good to picked up by the boat which came up the Stikine river. At this stage, we had no batteries and food left. Couple of hours later, we came to the town of Wrangell. But do we really want to get...
View ArticleTHE ALPINA COMTESSE LADY COLLECTION
In 1963 Alpina first launched its COMTESSE ladies collection with automatic movements and this year Alpina re-introduces this important line to mark its long tradition in the design of fine ladies...
View ArticleTHE NEW ALPINER MANUFACTURE ENCASING THE ALPINA AL-710 IN-HOUSE AUTOMATIC...
Inspired by an Alpiner automatic model from the 1950’s, the contemporary Alpiner line embodies the concept of Swissness to the fullest. It features the clean lines, essential dial design, and the...
View ArticleALPINA WATCHES BECOMES THE OFFICIAL WATCH OF THE FRENCH SKI FEDERATION (FFS)
Alpina is honored to announce its new partnership with the French Ski Federation (FFS). Alpina will be a partner and “Official Watch” of the French Ski Federation for an initial period of two seasons,...
View ArticleFRENCH FIS WORLDCUP SKIER VICTOR MUFFAT-JEANDET NEW ALPINA BRAND AMBASSADOR
Alpina Watches is pleased to introduce French FIS World Cup skier Victor Muffat-Jeandet as its new Brand Ambassador. As a member of the technical World Cup group of the French National Team, Victor...
View ArticleInhouse-Watchfair at the Schmuckwelten Pforzheim in Germany
On October 16th and 17th, 2015 the Schmuckwelten in Pforzheim arrange a inhouse-watchfair. Several watch-brands with their salesperson in power are in the shop to serve the end-consumers. The Deutsche...
View ArticleCELEBRATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RETURN OF THE 201ST SQUADRON
ON WEDNESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2015 AT 2 PM AT MEXICO’S AIR BASE NO.1 IN SANTA LUCÍA, PACHUCA, WE CELEBRATED THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RETURN OF THE PILOTS OF THE MEXICAN EXPEDITIONARY AIR FORCE’S 201ST...
View ArticlePRE-BASELWORLD NOVELTY THE ALPINER 4 BLACK FLYBACK MANUFACTURE CHRONOGRAPH
WITH THE LAUNCH OF ITS FIRST IN-HOUSE MANUFACTURE FLYBACK CHRONOGRAPH AT BASELWORLD 2015, ALPINA CELEBRATED AN IMPORTANT PREMIÈRE IN ITS 132 YEARS HISTORY. WITH ITS AL-760 PATENTED “DIRECT FLYBACK...
View ArticleREBECCA RUSCH AND ALPINA WATCHES AMBASSADOR AND ADVENTURER PATRICK SWEENEY TO...
ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY PRO MOUNTAIN BIKER REBECCA RUSCH AND FULL-TIME ADVENTURER AND ALPINA WATCHES AMBASSADOR, PATRICK SWEENEY WILL RIDE TO THE TOP OF MT. KILIMANJARO, AFRICA’S HIGHEST PEAK,...
View ArticleALPINA WATCHES NAMED OFFICIAL WATCH OF THE 2016 SPORT CHEK CANADIAN...
CALGARY, ALTA. (MARCH 14, 2016) – ALPINA WATCHES JOINS THE ALPINE CANADA ALPIN (ACA) FAMILY AT THE 2016 SPORT CHEK CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS WHERE ATHLETES WILL VIE FOR THE TITLE OF NATIONAL CHAMPION. ACA...
View ArticleThe Alpina Seastrong Diver 300 Automatic
At Baselworld 2016 Alpina presents its new automatic diving range, featuring professional diving specifications and a highly effective essential design, which seamlessly joins form and function. The...
View ArticleThe Alpina Seastrong Diver Heritage
Almost half a century after its first appearance, the Alpina „Seastrong 10“ Super Compressor diving watch finds its way back into the Alpina collection as the „Seastrong Diver Heritage“. More than a...
View ArticleCanadian Championships Whistler Blackcomb 2016 podium
Marie Michele Ganon the winner of Super G and Manny Osborne paradis as well as on the team event Marc Marcoux a Para alpine skier who has done well on the world cup circuit. Manny Osborne -Paradis...
View ArticleATHLETE PRIZING-2016 SPORT CHEK CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
ACA brought to life the 2016 Canadian Ski Racing Awards this year to celebrate achievements of ACA athletes, exceptional coaching at all levels in Canada and volunteers that consistently go above and...
View ArticleALPINA & ICELEGACY 2016 BORGE OUSLAND AND VINCENT COLLIARD TO CROSS THE...
Norwegian Polar Explorer Borge Ousland and French Adventurer Vincent Colliard are currently attempting the unsupported crossing of the St. Elias Ice Field. They started their expedition on the 21st of...
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