GALLERY
ANONIMO
EPURATO VERDE NATURA
Anonimo communes with nature as it combines a forest green dial with a
handmade leather calfskin strap to create its newest Epurato.
The Epurato Verde Natura is a 42mm steel cushion-cased watch that
continues this Italo-Swiss company’s addition of more casual designs, a move
signaled as it debuted the Epurato collection last year.
Known for two decades primarily as a maker of nautically themed round and
cushion-cased timepieces, many sporting bronze cases, Anonimo in recent
years has broadened its appeal to those in search of a more leisurely design
and more moderate sizes.
Instead of the metallic green dial seen on an earlier, bronze-cased Epurato,
this newer examples offers a matte ‘fir green’ dial that Anonimo says will
change its hue under differing light conditions. Also new is the
interchangeable strap that allows the wearer to easily change as desired.
Epurato’s dial retains its Anonimo flavor with its large Arabic 12, 4 and 8,
tracing a triangle across its broad dial. There’s a crown guard here as well,
echoing Anonimo’s Nautilo collection. But here Anonimo plays it traditional
with a crown at 3 o’clock instead of at 4 o’clock as on its Nautilo collection, or
at noon, as seen on Anonimo’s Militaire line. A Sellita SW200-1 automatic
movement, visible in part through a transparent caseback, shows a beaded
movement endowed with a skeletonized and Côtes de Genève- decorated
rotor. Price: $2,480
ALPINA
STARTIMER PILOT HERITAGE
Alpina adds a new watch, in four different color options, to its
Startimer Automatic collection, an attractive aviation-focused
group of high-value automatic pilot models Alpina has offered
since 2011. Like all cockpit-worth aviator watches, the new retro-
design collection resists shocks, is equipped with anti-magnetic
shields and is easy to ready thanks to its large luminous hands,
markers and numerals.
The latest Alpina Startimer Pilot Heritage watches boast a GMT
function via an internal rotating bezel. The new cushion-cased
pieces will recall sport watch designs, and even colors, from the
1970s. The steel, cushion-shaped cases measures 42mm by
40.75mm and features a sapphire crystal and an engraved
caseback displaying the Alpina logo.
Each of the four options is powered by an automatic caliber
offering a 38-hour power reserve and water resistance of 100
meters. The dials here are a design highlight. Each displays
polished white and black color hands, hours and minutes featuring
an orange seconds hand, date and internal rotating bezel. Available
dial colors include copper, light blue, dark grey and dark blue, all
with silver indexes and SuperLuminova treatment. Price: $1,395.
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