AUTHENTIC VINTAGE ALPINA RENSIE MILITARY BUMPER GENTS WRISTWATCH (SOLD)

BRAND/JENAMA: AUTHENTIC ALPINA RENSIE MILITARY BUMPER GENTS WRISTWATCH

MADE IN/BUATAN: SWISS

CIRCA/TAHUN: 1950's

MODEL: MILITARY BUMPER

CRYSTAL/CERMIN: ACCRYLIC

MOVEMENT/ENJIN: SWISS 17 JEWELS AUTOMATIC BUMPER MOVEMENT CAL. 5709

DIAL COLOR: CREAM WITH SUB-DIAL AT 6:00

FUNCTION/FUNGSI: MILITARY WATCH

HANDS/JARUM: BLACK METAL/ LOGAM HITAM

MARKERS/TANDA WAKTU: BLACK ARABIC /HITAM ARABICA

BEZEL: -

CASING : SOLID STAINLESS STEEL

LUGS: 18mm

MEASUREMENT/UKURAN: 34mm DIAMETER INCLUDING CROWN and 38mm LUG TO LUG

LUG SIZE: 18mm

DITANDA/ENGARVED BACK CASING: S/N 110786

CROWN: SS CROWN

STRAP/TALI: 8 STAINLESS STEEL FLEXI BAND "

STRAP/SAIZ TALI: 8.5"

WORKING CONDITION, KEEPING TIME, DISCONTINUED MODEL & HARD TO FIND

PRICE/HARGA: (SOLD TO PAK HAMID FROM KUANTAN ON 14.7.2011)

sold RM700

Alpina Watches International SA is a manufacturer of wrist watches based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded in 1883 by Gottlieb Hauser, watchmaker in Winterthur, who founded the Swiss Watchmakers Corporation ("Union Horlogère Suisse"). A number of watchmakers joined to purchase watch components and organized their manufacturing. All representatives of Union Horlogère depended on the Association, which aimed to sell high quality watches under the Alpina brand. Quickly, the new concept gained acceptance. Together with qualified manufactures, the Association started to develop its own calibres and to enlarge its distribution network.

Gottlieb Hauser.

Everything ran well until the seventies, when the quartz crises violently crushed the Swiss watch-industry. Alpina was powerless to counter the overwhelming emergence of electronic watches. Other major brands got together to form groups (predecessor of the Swatch Group) , but Alpina tried to fight it alone without really succeeding. In 1972, Alpina Watch International SA was incorporated with new German investors, which purchased all shares in Alpina Union Horlogère SA. In 2002, Alpina Watch International SA was acquired by Frederique Constant SA and Alpina watches were relaunched worldwide.

Named "Régulateur 1883" in reference to the year Alpina was founded, Alpina introduced a new model in 2005 as a fitting tribute to the long and rich tradition of the Geneva-based brand. The "regulator" dial is distinguished by the off-centred hour display at 10 o'clock, an exclusive Alpina feature.

In 2008, Alpina Genève celebrated its 125th anniversary with the inauguration of the first movement to be made entirely in its own workshops.