Alpina (watch brand)
Alpina is a Swiss watch brand. It was founded in 1883 as Alpina Union Horlogerie SA (German name: Schweizerische Uhrmacher-Genossenschaft (SUG) ) by Gottlieb Hauser in Biel / Bienne BE. It was a cooperative of dealers and manufacturers that had the aim of purchasing and wholesaling high quality wrist and pocket watches as well as their parts and works.
M. Stellmann , founded in Hanover in 1886 , initially acted as the sole agent for the brand in Germany.
From 1890 the company had its own administration building and warehouse in Biel. In 1899 Hauser was appointed managing director, and a branch was founded in Berlin under the direction of director Emil Rothmann , from which the German watchmaker's cooperative Alpina (Dugena) in Eisenach emerged in 1917. After the Second World War, the company moved to Darmstadt in 1946 .
In 1905 more than 20 companies belonged to the cooperative. In 1908 the Alpina Union Horlogère was founded, which was dissolved in 1972.
In 2002 Alpina was taken over by Frédérique Constant . At the end of May 2016, the Japanese watch company Citizen bought the Swiss Frédérique Constant group with the brands Alpina and Ateliers de Monaco.
Alpina Watches International SA
The Swiss company is still based in Geneva and sells mechanical and quartz wristwatches under the brand name Alpina Geneve .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Karl Kochmann: Clock and Watch Trademark Index of European Origin . Clockworks Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0963166944 . P. 798
- ^ Paul Siedentopf (main editor ): M. Stellmann , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the images), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 305