RARE VINTAGE ALPINA UNION HORLOGERE pocket WATCH 17 jewels SWISS SOLID SILVER

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RARE VINTAGE ALPINA UNION HORLOGERE pocket WATCH 17 jewels SWISS SOLID SILVER:
$299.00

*BRAND: ALPINA*Condition: very good condition
*Case: SOLID SILVER 0.800 very good condition WITH NORMAL TRACE OF USE, see photosserial number: 104890*Dial: EXCELLENT PRESERVED ENAMELEDDIALORIGINAL ALPINA UNION HORLOGERE, see photos
*Movement:ORIGINAL 17 jewels +PAT. REGULATOR hand-winding ALPINA UNION HORLOGERE
Alpina, Union Horlogère SA, Bienne, Genève, Besancon, Berlin

1883: TheUnion Horlogère (UH)orVereinigte Uhrmacher Alpina (VUA)was founded by Gottlieb Hauser as association of leading manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers to unify the purchase and distribution of watch and clock parts. Soon genuine calibres were designed, and manufactured by theAlpina Ebauche Factoryof Duret & Colonnaz in Geneva.
1896: Registration of the image of a Straub calibre as trade mark. The movement is signedAlpina, Association Horlogére Suisse. Samples for German speeking regions got the SUG trademark (Fig.1, top right), according to the translationSchweizerische Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft.
1905: The U.S. companiesGruenandHamiltonjoined the association.
1909:Alpina Union Horlogèrefounded thePräcisions-Uhrenfabrik Alpinain Glashütte.
1917: Due to political reasons near the end of WWI separation into theUnion Horlogère SAin Biel/Switzerland and theAlpina Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft GmbH (ADUG)in Berlin/Germany.
1929-1937:Alpina Gruen Gilde SA, a joint venture of both companies to coordinate production and distribution. AlsoRolexwas involved in this oganization, but it is unknown to which extent. A famous child of this cooperation was theDoctors Watch, made by the Rolex factoryAegler, and sold under the brandsAlpina, Gruen, Alpina-GruenandRolex-Prince.
1942: Renaming the registering the brandDUGENA.
1946: This German branch was reorganized and restarted in Darmstadt asDUGENA, Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft Alpina.
1949: Registration ofAlpinaas brand of the manufacturerStraub & Co, Bienne. The companyAlpina Union Horlogèrecontinued, and distributed the Straub watches.
The kind of the cooperation of Straub with Alpina, and the beginning of Straub are fuzzy: Straub is known as member of UH, and definitely most movements of newer Alpina watches were made by Straub. But already the calibre shown in the trade mark from 1896 (cf. above) was made by Straub.
*Works VERY good -was tested
*CASE DIAMETER: 50 mm crown does not included in the size
*Men\'s
*SWISS MADEThe watch is in very goodcondition and working.
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