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What is special about the new ALPA?
First, there is an uncompromising regard for reliability, precision and simplicity along with painstaking attention to the highest standard of quality: the foundation of the ALPA reputation for the last half-century. Then there are all those sophisticated details that impress the professionals and connoisseurs with their practical and aesthetic values. They have already inspired the international trade press to making enthusiastic comparisons with legends such as Bugatti, Colt, Fabergé and Patek Philippe (Shutterbug, Florida/USA, May 98, p. 220). There are, for example, major parts that are cut out of solid pieces of rolled alloy of a type used by the aerospace industry. There is a viewfinder made in Switzerland exclusively for ALPA. There is an extremely smooth ball- and roller-bearing shift movement (ALPA 12S/WA). And finally, there are the unique interchangeable Zeiss Biogon T* 4.5/38 mm and the hand grips formed ergonomically from selected woods. All hints at the potential of the new ALPA.
The central point is not whether you ever need every one of the many features or the full performance spectrum that an ALPA 12WA or ALPA 12S/WA places at your disposal. It is, rather, whether you can do it whenever you want. In addition, there always remains the indescribable, the call-it-what-you-may, that has been part of every ALPA over the last fifty years.
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