Alpina and Cessna Hold Collaboration Event
To celebrate their collaboration, Alpina and Cessna recently held an event at Cessna Aircraft's headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. Selected VIP customers attended a presentation and viewed over 30 airplanes in different stages of production. Following the presentation, several Cessna planes were inspected in the main showroom, including a brand new Cessna Citation Mustang. Alpina joined forces with Cessna Aircraft and PrivatAir to support the introduction of Alpina’s Startimer Pilot collection. Featured at the event was the Alpina Startimer Automatic with in-house developed and produced automatic caliber AL-710 with minute and hour indication and off-center date hand, combining historic pilot watch design features with a modern layout.“We both rely on precision, hand-crafted products to please our customers,” said Alpina Managing Director Peter Stas. “Since Cessna and Alpina are essentially talking to the same people, cooperating through events like this benefit b

My First Grail Watch: Tim Gr?nefeld
Welcome back to an original watches-dealer feature, "My First Grail Watch." In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. Today, we are speaking with Tim Gr?nefeld, the younger of the two brothers at the helm of their eponymous company, Gr?nefeld Watches. Read on to learn about the path his education took, as well as what watch he still hopes to pick up some day.watches-dealer (ABTW): Who are you, and what is your relationship to the watch industry?Tim Gr?nefeld: I am Tim Gr?nefeld, born in The Netherlands in 1972. At an early stage, I was already involved with watches. My grandfather started his watch Atelier in 1912, and later - in the sixties - my parents took over his Atelier and shop. At a very early age, I was playing in the workshop. I was always interested in all the tools, clocks, and watches.ABTW: Sounds like a perfect environment to start off in, given what you do today. When did things change from playing in

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Thanks to Dan at Timepiece Perfection my beautiful new baby arrived today!

Marina Militare - PAM 6152-1
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372 love today
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