Swiss 18 carat gold watch with minute repeating Circa 1935

Gold minute repeater
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A very fine minute repeating pocket watch made by Omega SA in Biel, Switzerland, circa 1935. The open faced plain case of this watch was crafted from 18 carat gold. The white enamel dial has Arabic hour numerals, an outer minute track, a subsidiary seconds dial at 6 o’clock and blued steel hands. The movement has Charles Robert Tissot’s top quality precision lever escapement and repeats the minutes.
Case and cuvette have matching numbers, the dial is signed Ω Omega and the cuvette Charles Robert Tissot.
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Diameter: 49 mm
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Weight: 78 g
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Signed: Ω Omega
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Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère SA 
When the company Charles Tissot & Fils lost the main buyers of its luxury watches on the Russian market due to the October Revolution, the cooperation with S.A. Louis Brandt & Frère/ Omega Watch Co. began and in 1929, Tissot and Omega joined forces to form the holding company Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère SA (S.S.I.H.).