Alpina Alpiner 4 Automatic: A watch great at being OK.

Im generally not a fan of the idea of a versatile watch - generally versatility is code for mediocre at a lot of things. But I guess there is a spot in the collection for something to fill the all-rounder slot and this watch, the Alpina Alpiner 4 Automatic nails the brief.

For your awareness some things about me and the channel.

I'm an engineer who's into human behavior, loves the ideas behind art and sees watches as a mix of science, craft, art, business, history, technology, philosophy, and psychology. As a result, my videos cover all that ground. (Oh, and I overthink everything).

In my opinion, a $15 Casio or a $50 G-Shock are probably the only real tool watches and pretty much everything else is jewelry. So as we are talking about jewelry I think style is substance and I tend to believe history, brand, style, design, execution, and aesthetics are more important than specs. A dull design with a good movement is a dull watch, and an exciting design with an average movement is an exciting watch.

To be clear, I hate the expression "it's just a watch". If you got this far, watches matter to you and represent a bridge between us - dismissing them as unimportant seems wrong and disrespectful. That doesn't mean we can't and don't have fun, it just means we should not be totally mindless of others.

I'm a watch collector and curator - I like my collections to have a theme. My collection has several themes:
1. Vintage Alpina watches
2. Travel watches (GMT. UTC, world timers, home times, dual times)
3. Seiko Prospex dive watches
4. Breitling chronographs
5. Stuff I just really like.

I don't do wrist checks so if you want to see what I'm wearing, my collection, and other random bits of my life check out my Instagram:

@not.so.obvious.watches   / not.so.obvious.watches  

You can email me at [email protected]

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