The New Yema Rallygraf Alpine Cup Series Hand-Wound Chronograph

Yema continues its close partnership with Alpine, the legendary French racing car brand, with a new limited series celebrating the Alpine Elf Cup. In this championship, the modern A110 cars prove the competitive edge on Europe’s most iconic circuits. Among the latest Alpine Cup Series releases, one stands out for mechanical watch enthusiasts: the Yema Rallygraf Alpine Cup Series Chronograph, a manual-winding limited edition. This new mechanical Rallygraf builds on the brand’s historic racing chronographs from the 1960s and 1970s while introducing modern refinements and an unmistakable connection to Alpine’s blue-liveried racing cars. Yema’s role as Official Timekeeper of the championship makes this watch more than a design exercise; it’s a link between French watchmaking and French motorsport.

Compared to previous editions, the Yema Rallygraf Alpine Cup Chronograph is presented in a newly re-engineered 41mm stainless steel case, now more streamlined and balanced. By removing the traditional external tachymeter bezel, Yema achieves a slimmer 12.5mm profile; a 47mm lug-to-lug fit wears comfortably across wrist sizes. Surfaces alternate fine brushing and polished bevels, while redesigned crown and pump pushers improve ergonomics and echo vintage designs.

A double-domed sapphire crystal tops the case, creating attractive distortions along the edges and visually enlarging the dial aperture. Beneath it, an internal tachymeter chapter ring replaces the fixed outer scale, improving legibility and lending the watch a more contemporary precision-instrument feel.

The bi-compax layout references the dashboard gauges of vintage Alpine race cars. Against a crisp white dial, the “blue panda” sub-registers immediately stand out, a clear nod to Alpine’s historic racing colour. The small seconds is at 9 o’clock, the 30-minute chronograph counter at 3, while the date window is placed at 6 o’clock, below the Alpine Cup Series logo. The hands and applied indices are filled with Super-LumiNova BGW9 Grade A for night-time visibility, while the central chronograph seconds hand has a blue tip to match Alpine’s signature hue, with an “A” counterweight for added tie-in. The overall effect is sporty, crisp, and unmistakably French.

Powering the Rallygraf Alpine Cup Series is the Sellita SW510 M BH b, a hand-wound chronograph movement based on the Valjoux 7750 architecture. It beats at 28,800 vibrations/hour and stores 60 hours of power reserve. 

The solid caseback bears a high-pressure stamping of the Alpine A110 emblem, with each watch individually numbered 000/100. The watch is offered on a French-made perforated rally strap in Alpine blue leather, tailored to match the dial and fitted with a polished pin buckle. Each piece is assembled in France at Yema’s Morteau workshop and comes with a two-year international warranty.

The Yema Rallygraf Alpine Cup Series Chronograph is priced at EUR 2,190 and will ship from early November 2025. It is a limited 100-edition in the Rallygraf Alpine Cup Series lineup alongside the more accessible 39mm meca-quartz variants. For more information, please visit Yema.com.