Alpina Seastrong Diver Heritage Collection Expands with New Brown-and-Bronze Color Combo
Vintage-look divers’ watches continue to be a hot ticket in today’s watch market, and Alpina was an early adopter of the trend, launching its Seastrong Diver Heritage, a modern revival of a 1969 model, back in 2016. This year, the sporty Swiss brand adds two new models notable for their striking color combinations of chocolate brown dials with bronze-colored cases.
Alpina Seastrong Diver Heritage (Ref. AL-525BR4H4)
Alpina Seastrong Diver Heritage (Ref. AL-525BRC4H4)
The watch is an example of the historical “Super Compressor” style that is a relative rarity on dive watches today, with two crowns, one to wind the movement and set the time and date, the other to control the internal rotating bezel with its 60-minute dive scale. (Watches from the mainline Seastrong Diver 300 collection are equipped with more traditional exterior rotating dive-scale bezels.) The case of the new model is made of stainless steel with a bronze-colored PVD coating; actual bronze, a material with historical ties to diving equipment and shipbuilding, and used in recent years on many contemporary dive watches, would presumably have pushed the price point of this watch beyond Alpina’s well-known “affordable luxury” limit. The crown at 4 o’clock does winding and setting duty while the additional one at 2 o’clock moves the internal bezel in either direction to set and monitor dive times. Both crowns screw down securely into the 42-mm case, helping to ...
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