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movement

Alpina 598

Alpinaarchive filing⟨1955 or earlier⟩ range onlydesign:alpina-598compare specs · 2
⟨1955 or earlier⟩ range only — no source gives an introduction yearread from sources · staged
not after 1955
a dated example movement, ca. 1950 (+5 yr, the source says “circa”)“1-2) ca. 1950: 5595, Alpina, 598, Swiss; Incabloc”

Identity

A caliber is three separate things and this reference keeps them apart: the construction, the names it is sold under, and the article a brand actually bought. A watch model points at an execution — never at a bare construction — which is why “same caliber” is almost never a complete answer.

IDesign — the construction
Alpina 598
movementproducer: Alpinaarchive filing
IIDesignations — 0 names

No designation is recorded for this design yet.

IIIExecutions — 1 article

No source in this corpus states which grade any Alpina 598 was bought at. That unknown is stored as a real row rather than left blank, so it can be counted, filtered and excluded from any comparison that would otherwise assume parity.

unknownsynthetic
evidence: unknown

no source states which grade this article was bought at — this row exists so 'unknown' stays countable instead of becoming an assumption

exec:alpina-598/unknown

Specifications

PropertyValueScopeStatusSources
Jewels
build.jewel_count
16Ranfft data sheet, the 16-jewel member of its 16/17 rangestaged
Jewels
build.jewel_count
17Ranfft data sheet, the 17-jewel member of its 16/17 rangestaged
Seconds display
disp.seconds_display
central—staged
Casing diameter
geom.casing_diameter_mm
27.15 mm—staged
Movement diameter
geom.diameter_mm
26.6 mm—staged
Movement height
geom.height_mm
4.9 mm—staged
Frequency
osc.frequency_vph
18000 vph—staged
Shock protection
osc.shock_protection
incablocexample movement, 1950staged
Power reserve (typical)
power.reserve_typical_h
46 h—staged
Winding mode
wind.mode
manual—staged

Where a property carries more than one value, the values have different scopes — an official spec sheet and observed hardware, say. Different scopes are not a disagreement, so both are accepted and both are shown with the scope they apply to.

Lineage

The same relationships as the tree at the top of this page, with their sources. An absence in a column means no source stated one.

Ancestors · 0

Where this construction came from. Read up the arrows.

None recorded. An absence here means no source stated one, not that none exists.

Descendants · 1

What came from it — revisions, variants, clones, licensed copies.

Related · 0

Stored in a different table from descent. A successor is not a child.

None recorded. An absence here means no source stated one, not that none exists.

Curated family labels

Alpina family/generations block
authority: ranfft5 members

Sources

  1. 1
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20230904021413/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&Alpina_598&
    archivetier 2retrieved 2023-09-0413 facts on this page
  2. 2
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20191024001803/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&a0&2uswk&Alpina_592R
    archivetier 2retrieved 2019-10-241 fact on this page
  3. 3
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20191114224327/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&Alpina_598E
    archivetier 2retrieved 2019-11-141 fact on this page
  4. 4
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20230904015226/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&Alpina_592&
    archivetier 2retrieved 2023-09-041 fact on this page
  5. 5
    Internet Archive
    https://web.archive.org/web/20230907043253/http://www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&0&2uswk&Dugena_598&
    archivetier 2retrieved 2023-09-071 fact on this page