Vintage Eye for the Modern Guy: Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage
Today we?ll be taking a look at one of the most recent offerings from the heritage collection of Swiss brand Alpina, the 1970s-inspired Startimer Pilot Heritage. Alpina, founded in 1883, is no stranger to neo-vintage watches, first making waves in the trend a few years ago with the release of its supercompressor-styled Seastrong Diver Heritage and WWII-era KM-710. Yet in comparison to the brand?s earlier reissues, this more recent release takes a ?70?s-style alarm watch design and remixes it into a modern mechanical GMT.
The Startimer Pilot Heritage uses a 42-mm brushed-and-polished steel ?helmet? case, and is available in four metallic colorways: dark gray, light blue, navy blue and copper. The case prominently features two side crowns, one for changing the time and date, and the other for operating the GMT function. On the dial of the watch you?ll notice the inner white GMT bezel on the outermost edge, applied silver indices for each of the hour markers, simpler black-print markers for each of the minutes, and a framed date window at the 3 o?clock position. Toward the top of the dial is a subtle, black-printed Alpina logo, and at its center is an inner rotating disk used to indicate the corresponding GMT time on the white bezel. Sweeping over the dial features are two slim hour and minutes hands, with a bright orange central seconds hand aesthetically contrasting each of the colorways.
Inside the Startimer Pilot Heritage is the AL-555 automatic caliber, which uses a Sel...
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