The Alpina Avalanche Extreme Regulateur PVD 48mm

It’s been quite some time since I got rid of this watch, but there isn’t much out there written about this watch, so I thought it would be a good idea to give my thoughts on this particular piece. The watch has a very sporty look with the PVD finish, the rubber strap, and the red accents on the black dial.

At 48mm, this is a large watch. However, the case only sits 12.5mm tall, so it is relatively thin. The rubber strap is contoured to hug the wrists, but since the case is so broad, the strap tends to bow outward if you don’t have broad wrists to match. The dial has a great triangular pattern texture on it, and there is an hours subdial at the 10 o’clock position, and the seconds hand subdial is at the 6 o’clock position. Reading this watch takes a little getting used to at first, but it’s a cool complication and a great conversation piece.

The caseback features a very large viewing window, which showcases the nicely decorated ETA 6497 manual wind mechanical movement.

All things considered, this is a pretty cool watch, but I ended up getting rid of it because the 48mm case just never quite sat right on my 7″ wrist. I hear that Alpina recently released a 42mm version of this watch, so I may have to grab one of those sometime soon.

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~ by justhideandwatch on August 16, 2008.