News For its 90th anniversary Glycine Watch has signed a special partnership deal, through which the firm will support the stunt pilot Pascale Alajouanine over the next three years.
"Our new ambassador is our perfect counterpart," said a delighted Katherina Brechbühler, General Manager of the Biel based firm. "This pleasant French woman is the ideal representative of our values of rigour and technology," criteria that are particularly important in the world of aviation and, to an even greater extent, aerobatics.
A native of Boulogne, near Paris, Pascale Alajouanine obtained her pilot’s licence on CAP-10 more than twenty years ago. Today, she flies on CAP-232 and holds the European Champion title after recording seven French championship victories and one team World Championship success. For her, accuracy and technology are important not just in her sporting career, but also professionally, since she works part-time as an optician. "To tell the truth, from May to September, during the aerobatics season, I have very little time to spend in the job," she points out.
The new Airman 9 from Glycine is a particularly apt match for this "Airwoman". Since the launch of this extraordinary watch at Baselworld 2004, Pascale Alajouanine has been wearing the Airman 9, which combines chronograph and universal time functions. She is very enthusiastic about this genuinely out-of-the-ordinary timepiece, water resistant to 200 metres and equipped with the ETA 7754 automatic calibre. "The chronograph helps me to plan my flying times and keep to them. In fact, in aerobatics programmes, the time allowed is limited," she explains. "In addition, with the universal time function, during competitions taking place in other time zones, I can easily stay in touch with my base."
June 15, 2004
