The (smart)watch of the day: Alpina Horological Smartwatch

Contrary to many other connected products announced at this Baselworld edition, this one you can actually touch and feel! It’s a new model specially designed for ladies by Alpina, as part of its brand new Horological Smartwatch collection. Like its sister company Frederique Constant, Alpina aims at offering a real Swiss watch, “which has the additional ‘smart’ feature to be connected”.

There is indeed no digital screen on the Horological Smartwatch. Powered by the MotionX platform - conceived by Californian company Fullpower for “quantified self” applications - the watch is capable of bi-directional communication with iPhone and Android apps. The sensor-fusion engine tracks activity and sleep patterns.

This new released lady watch is proposed with a silver finish and a refined brushed and polished stainless steel 39mm case. Displaying central hour and minute hands, the “smart” counter is positioned at 6 o’clock. The small red hand indicates the date to the wearer during the day, and will point to the moon during your sleep, with a small steel hand showing you the percentage of your activity or sleep.

Frederique Constant, Alpina, and Mondaine (which has also adopted the MotionX platform on its Helvetica watch) will launch ten different Horological Smartwatch models in 2015, for both ladies and gents

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Reference:

• AL-285STD3CD6B

Case:

• Polished and brushed 3-parts stainless steel case
• Bezel set with 60 diamonds, 39mm diameter
• Dome shaped scratch-resistants sapphire crystal
• Water-resistant up to 100m/330ft/10ATM

Movement:

• MMT-285 quartz caliber.
• All functions adjustable via the crown
• 2+ years battery life

Functions:

• Always-on time & date
• MotionX® activity tracking
• Sleeptracker® sleep monitoring
• Sleep cycle alarms
• Get-Active alerts
• Adaptive coaching
• MotionX® cloud backup and restore (MotionX®, MotionX-365®, and Sleeptracker® are trademarks of Fullpower and are used under license.

Dial:

• Silver dial with guilloché triangle pattern and 11 hand-set diamonds
• Hand polished hands with white luminous treatment

Bracelet:

• 3 links stainless steel bracelet