WWI German Military Union Horlogere Alpina Silver Officer's Award Pocket Watch

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WWI German Military Union Horlogere Alpina Silver Officer's Award Pocket Watch
WWI German Military Union Horlogere Alpina Silver Officer's Award Pocket Watch
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I am pleased to offer from my private collection this extremely rare German WWI  Union Horlogere Alpina Glashutte  silver Officer's award pocket watch,made for the office of General Paul von Hindenburg c1916.
The watch has been awarded for bravery.
On the watch case is hand engraved a portrait of General Hindenburg in his parade uniform.
Fine porcelain dial.
High grade lever chronometer movement-special swan neck precision micrometric regulator,Breguet spiral,compensating balance wheel with gold weights,gold train.
A must for every serious collector.
The watch comes with CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY!
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History of Union Horlogere
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.
1896: Registration of the image of a Straub calibre as trade mark. The movement is signed
Alpina, Association Horlogére Suisse
. Samples for German speeking regions got the SUG trademark shown on the upper left, according to the translation
Schweizerische Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft
.
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 joint venture of both companies to coordinate production and distribution. Also
Rolex
was involved in this oganization, but it is unknown to which extent. A famous child of this cooperation was the
Doctors Watch
, made by the Rolex factory
Aegler
, and sold under the brands
Alpina, Gruen, Alpina-Gruen
and
Rolex-Prince
.
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 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.
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