Maya Saat
At Alpina, Swiss Watch Manufacturers since 1883 and a reference in high quality, we manufacture boldly designed sports and lifestyle watches. Our strategy is to produce these luxury sports and lifestyle watches at accessible luxury prices to reach younger watch enthusiasts.
Alpina Genève is all about passion – The Brand is a fully-integrated manufacture, involved in all the stages of the production of its watches, from initial design through to final assembly and passing through the building of its own calibers and finishing with a thorough and exhaustive quality control. Each watch is assembled by hand by a team of highly qualified technicians and craftsmen and women, and Alpina has invested heavily in state-of-the-art digital machinery to ensure maximum quality and life expectancy.
Every watch that leaves the Manufacture shares the following characteristics: accuracy, legibility, shock and water resistance, strength and reliability. Alpina Genève is constantly innovating to offer enhanced creativity in its watches and to guarantee exceptional value. The new manufacturing plant, home to all the trades necessary to get the watches out to the new owners is a modern, is a purpose building offering the best working conditions for its highly skilled worked force.
Frédérique Constant is numbered among today’s leading Geneva watchmakers. This private family company has achieved this esteemed position through a brilliantly planned and well-executed programme of expansion since the launch of its first products in 1991.
Frédérique Constant was founded in 1988 by Peter Stas and his wife Aletta in Geneva, with a clear objective to create what became known as ‘accessible luxury’ watches. By offering excellent quality watches with affordable prices Frédérique Constant has gradually become an important player within the Swiss watchmaking industry.
Still independent and family-owned, Frédérique Constant’s ultra-modern watch manufacture is now based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, reaching a production of 128,000 timepieces last year. Frédérique Constant watches are defined by their high quality, differentiation and precision in design and manufacture. Each watch is assembled by hand and extensively controlled with the latest equipment to ensure maximum quality. Since 2004, Frédérique Constant has counted itself amongst the few true ‘manufactures’ of Switzerland.
The company’s slogan ‘Live your Passion’ symbolises Peter and Aletta’s original philosophy, also present in their support of important charities and sponsorship of prestigious events.