130 years of watchmaking BASELWORLD 2013: Alpina, the inventor of the modern sports watch, celebrates
(04/2013) Since 1883, the contribution of Alpina to the Swiss watchmaking industry has been in the innovation of caliber and watch production methods and organisation. It can be rightly said that the “Alpina Union Horlogère,” whose members were called the “Alpinists," was the ancestor of today’s modern Swiss watch groups.