Antique German Alpina Pocket Watch for 1936 Berlin Olympic Games Boxing Event

I am pleased to offer from my private collection this important historical German Alpina pocket watch specially made for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

The watch has been awarded to the German boxer Josef Miner who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics .He won a bronze medal in the boxing competition. The watch comes from his family estate.

It is a very important watch with significant historical value!

The watch is preserved in excellent condition!



The watch has a high grade movement,Breguet spiral,bymetalic compensating balance wheel ,precision regulator,ruby endstone on balance.

Perfect working order.

46mm

 

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-Gruenand 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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