Gents Helvetia Gold Plated Automatic Wristwatch

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Gents Helvetia Gold Plated Automatic Date Wristwatch

Swiss Helvetia automatic date wristwatch c1970 in a gold plated case made with stainless steel back on a black leather strap with gilt buckle. Signed silvered dial with polished gilt baton hours and matching hands with luminous inserts and sweep seconds with date display at 3 o/c. Swiss signed calibre H861, 25 jewelled lever automatic date.

Case diameter - 34mm, strap fitting - 18mm.

This item has been serviced and is guaranteed for a period of 1 year from the date of sale, subject to our standard Terms and Conditions of Guarantee.

Product code: WWOM130

On the 14th April 1892 the Swiss watch company Louis Brandt & Frere registered the name ‘Helvetia’ as one of the brand names for their watches. Two years later in 1894 they also registered the name ‘Omega’ and applied it to a new range of higher quality lever pocket watch movements they designed using cutting edge technology. So successful were the new Omega watches that the Brandt brothers decided to form a new company alongside Louis Brandt & Frere. On the 5th August 1895 the new company ‘Société d’Horlogerie La Générale’ was formed in La Chaux de-Fonds as a joint venture the directors being Louis Paul Brandt, Edouard Boillat of the ébauche company Ed. Boillat & Cie and initially Louis Courvoisier though he resigned in 1897. 1897 was also the year that the company was additionally registered under its English name, ‘General Watch Co’, and moved its registered office to Bienne.