<p><strong>ALPINA, UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL</strong><br /><br />Let us look back to 1883, the founding year of the association of manufacturers and retailers of watches that evolved into Alpina. Its members affectionately called themselves the 'Alpinists', and they all shared the same target: the success of the Alpina watch. <br /><br /><strong>The first horological cooperation</strong><br /><br />Everything started in 1883 when Gottlieb Hauser, watchmaker in Winterthu...