1942 HELVETIA German Army DH Watch Ref. 3190 15 Jewels WWII Wristwatch 34mm

HELVETIA From www.helvetiahistory.co.uk – “Helvetia’s history ranges from its beginnings alongside Omega at Louis Brandt & Frere to the Swiss “Quartz Crisis” of the 1970s & 80s and beyond.” On the 14th of 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 high-quality lever movement pocket watches they had developed using cutting edge manufacturing technology. So successful were the new Omega watches that the Brandt brothers decided to form a new company alongside Louis Brandt & Frere and move the production of some of their other watches to make extra room in their Bienne factory to allow increased production of Omega watches. On the 5th of August 1895 the new company ‘Société d’Horlogerie La Générale’ was formed in La Chaux de-Fonds. Two years later, in 1897, the company was additionally regist