[2] Aldo Uberti (d. 1998) founded his company in the foothills of the Italian Alps in 1959 to recreate long-obsolete but iconic firearms from the days of the American West and the U.S. Civil War.

[3] Aldo Uberti had attended the Zanardelli gunsmithing school, and by age 14 he was already apprenticing with Beretta, a determining factor in his early career.

He founded Uberti on the eve of the U.S. Civil War's 100th anniversary, when he was approached by U.S. businessman Val Forgett Jr. who wanted to cater to the budding but promising reenactment market.

The first deal was signed in 1958, for 6,000 revolvers to be delivered in 1959, with Gregorelli and Uberti responsible for manufacturing and packaging for export and Forgett handling U.S. marketing and distribution through his new company, Navy Arms.

[6] By the 1970s, Uberti had grown into an internationally recognized producer of Civil-War and Old West firearms, with high quality standards and a marked preference for forging their receivers out of solid steel rather than using casting or alloys.

[7] In the year 2000, Uberti was acquired by Beretta, thanks to whose substantial financing it upgraded the factory to a brand-new facility, thereby greatly expanding production capacity.

By 2002, the factory was further modernized with CNC machinery; this enabled them to expedite certain manufacturing processes, although an amount of hand-fitting and hand-finishing remains necessary to this day for this type of firearm.

[9] Other movie credits include Uberti's Colt Walker featured in John Wayne's 1969 True Grit,[10] as well as the same model in Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales (1979).

[12] Thanks to modern steels and the decades-old experience of the artisans assembling the guns, Uberti's replicas are highly regarded by shooters and collectors all over the world, sometimes thought as surpassing the originals in quality.