Alpina adds a California dial to its rugged Alpiner Extreme to create the Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial, a fitting high-visibility historic design within the outdoor-adventure collection.
The Geneva-based watchmaker created its Alpiner collection with mountain trekkers in mind, and launching a California dial model enhances options within the series.
Alpina notes that the dial cleverly blends Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, dashes and triangles designed to make it simple to see the time from any angle and avoid the confusion of mistaking a 6 for a 9 and adding clarity to the 8 and 4. Often used on dive watches, such dials are equally appropriate to those scaling the Alps, or just hiking the woods. 
Also aligned with Alpina’s ethos, the historic dial design (which apparently earned its name due to its popularity in its namesake state) includes a triangle at 12 o’clock, which perfectly echoes the Alpina logo. Alpina has long used a red triangle to symbolizes Alpine summits, and on each dial you see one just above the Alpine logo. A second red triangle can be seen as the counterweight on the seconds hand. 
The steel-cased 41mm by 42.5mm Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial arrives on a rubber strap and is powered by the Sellita-based automatic AL-525 caliber. The watch is water resistant to 200 meters. (See additional specifications below).
Price: $1,795.
Specifications: Alpina Alpiner Extreme Automatic California Dial
(AL-525BB4AE6)
Movement: Automatic AL-525 Sellita-based caliber, 38-hour power-reserve, 28’800 alt/h.
Case: 41mm by 42.5mm brushed and polished stainless steel 3-part case with
anti-reflective sapphire crystal. Water-resistant to 200 meters. Engraved and see-through screwed case-back, screw-in crown.
Dial: Black with triangle pattern, black outer ring with white markers,
applied beige color indexes filled with white luminous treatment,
date window, hand-polished silver color hour and minute hands filled with beige luminous treatment, polished silver color second hand with red triangle.
Strap: Black rubber with folding buckle.
Price: $1,795
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