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Buenas tardes.
Continuando con las compras, inserto la fotografías, poco “agraciadas” de un Alpina Tresor. Como pretendo hacer a partir de ahora, a pesar del trabajo que me lleva y al considerar que puede ser interesante para este subforo, al que pienso limitarme, insertaré una breve reseña de la manufactura. Reseña que considero muy interesante, aunque esté en inglés. Como es sabido la UH es el embrión de Alpina/Dugena, que hemos de relacionar con la Gruen y Aegler –nada menos- y a mi modesto parecer, es una de las mejores fabricantes de movimientos (por no decir la mejor) de los años 30/40 del pasado siglo.
La mención a Alpina está en inglés, pero es de lo mejorcito que he encontrado y resulta muy interesando para los aficionados a la caza de buenos relojes, no excesivamente conocidos.
Alpina, Union Horlogère SA, Bienne, Genève, Besancon, Berlin
1883: The Union Horlogère (UH) or Vereinigte 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 the Alpina Ebauche Factory of Duret & Colonnaz in Geneva.
1905: The U.S. companies Gruen and Hamilton joined the association.
1909: Alpina Union Horlogère founded the Präcisions-Uhrenfabrik Alpina in Glashütte.
1917: Due to political reasons near the end of WWI separation into the Union Horlogère SA in Biel/Switzerland and the Alpina Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft GmbH (ADUG) in Berlin/Germany.
1929-1937: Alpina Gruen Gilde SA, a merger of both companies to coordinate production and distribution. A fameous child of this merger was the Doctors Watch, made by Aegler and sold under the brands Alpina, Gruen, Alpina-Gruen and Rolex-Prince. Aegler was later bought by Rolex.
1946: The German branch was reorganized and restarted in Darmstadt as DUGENA, Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft Alpina.
1949: Registration of Alpina as brand of the manufacturer Straub & Co, Bienne. The company Alpina Union Horlogère continued, and distributed the Straub watches. The kind of this cooperation is fuzzy: Straub is known as member of UH, and definitely most movements of newer Alpina watches were made by Straub.
Remarks
Although Alpina watches came from several sources, they had externally a uniform appearance:
The name Alpina was restricted to watches of higher to highest grade, while moderate to medium qualities came with the A surrounded by circle and triangle.
Further, brands like Festa, Siegerin, Terval were used for special types of watches or special markets, e.g. Tresor for very rugged watches.
As far as no photos of movements with Alpina signature are available, they are replaced by examples with the original manufacturer signature. This gives already a reasonably broad survey over the calibres used by Alpina
Se trata de un tipo especial de Alpina un Tresor-Festa, que se enuncia como militar ¿. Diámetro sin corona 28X35mm. Brazalete de época. Todo de acero inoxidable, que se indica de color azulado (¿) con bisel de plata (¿).
Veamos el calibre, según Ranfft Watches, es el que sigue:
[SIZE=+1]Alpina 586[/SIZE]
Features
manual wind
sub second
Data
10.5''', Dm= 23.3mm, H= 4mm
15/17 jewels
f = 18000 A/h
power reserve 46h
Example, year: signature; shock device
1-2) ca. 1940: 232990; Incabloc (for model Tresor Siegerin)
3) ca. 1940: 3641, Alpina
4) ca. 1950: Alpina, Swiss, 17 Jewels; Incabloc
No obstante, yo creo que se trataría del calibre Alpina 641, que Ranfft no tiene dentro de su catálogo. Sus prestaciones son muy similares, si bien es más antiguo (1920): ¿Qué opinais sobre el particular?
Saludos cordiales.
Continuando con las compras, inserto la fotografías, poco “agraciadas” de un Alpina Tresor. Como pretendo hacer a partir de ahora, a pesar del trabajo que me lleva y al considerar que puede ser interesante para este subforo, al que pienso limitarme, insertaré una breve reseña de la manufactura. Reseña que considero muy interesante, aunque esté en inglés. Como es sabido la UH es el embrión de Alpina/Dugena, que hemos de relacionar con la Gruen y Aegler –nada menos- y a mi modesto parecer, es una de las mejores fabricantes de movimientos (por no decir la mejor) de los años 30/40 del pasado siglo.
La mención a Alpina está en inglés, pero es de lo mejorcito que he encontrado y resulta muy interesando para los aficionados a la caza de buenos relojes, no excesivamente conocidos.
Alpina, Union Horlogère SA, Bienne, Genève, Besancon, Berlin
1883: The Union Horlogère (UH) or Vereinigte 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 the Alpina Ebauche Factory of Duret & Colonnaz in Geneva.
1905: The U.S. companies Gruen and Hamilton joined the association.
1909: Alpina Union Horlogère founded the Präcisions-Uhrenfabrik Alpina in Glashütte.
1917: Due to political reasons near the end of WWI separation into the Union Horlogère SA in Biel/Switzerland and the Alpina Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft GmbH (ADUG) in Berlin/Germany.
1929-1937: Alpina Gruen Gilde SA, a merger of both companies to coordinate production and distribution. A fameous child of this merger was the Doctors Watch, made by Aegler and sold under the brands Alpina, Gruen, Alpina-Gruen and Rolex-Prince. Aegler was later bought by Rolex.
1946: The German branch was reorganized and restarted in Darmstadt as DUGENA, Deutsche Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft Alpina.
1949: Registration of Alpina as brand of the manufacturer Straub & Co, Bienne. The company Alpina Union Horlogère continued, and distributed the Straub watches. The kind of this cooperation is fuzzy: Straub is known as member of UH, and definitely most movements of newer Alpina watches were made by Straub.
Remarks
Although Alpina watches came from several sources, they had externally a uniform appearance:
The name Alpina was restricted to watches of higher to highest grade, while moderate to medium qualities came with the A surrounded by circle and triangle.
Further, brands like Festa, Siegerin, Terval were used for special types of watches or special markets, e.g. Tresor for very rugged watches.
As far as no photos of movements with Alpina signature are available, they are replaced by examples with the original manufacturer signature. This gives already a reasonably broad survey over the calibres used by Alpina
Se trata de un tipo especial de Alpina un Tresor-Festa, que se enuncia como militar ¿. Diámetro sin corona 28X35mm. Brazalete de época. Todo de acero inoxidable, que se indica de color azulado (¿) con bisel de plata (¿).
Veamos el calibre, según Ranfft Watches, es el que sigue:
[SIZE=+1]Alpina 586[/SIZE]
Features
manual wind
sub second
Data
10.5''', Dm= 23.3mm, H= 4mm
15/17 jewels
f = 18000 A/h
power reserve 46h
Example, year: signature; shock device
1-2) ca. 1940: 232990; Incabloc (for model Tresor Siegerin)
3) ca. 1940: 3641, Alpina
4) ca. 1950: Alpina, Swiss, 17 Jewels; Incabloc
No obstante, yo creo que se trataría del calibre Alpina 641, que Ranfft no tiene dentro de su catálogo. Sus prestaciones son muy similares, si bien es más antiguo (1920): ¿Qué opinais sobre el particular?
Saludos cordiales.
