When deciding on how to number the watches of the new company it seems they decided to start at 2 million in order to keep the serial number ranges of the two companies separate but also to imply a continuation between them.
To understand Helvetia serial numbers, we first need to look at the serial numbering of Helvetia’s sister company Louis Brandt & Frere (later to become the Omega Watch Company).īy 1895 when the brothers Louis Paul and César Brandt founded the company that was to become Helvetia the Société d’Horlogerie La Générale or the General Watch Company, the serial numbering system that they had been using for their Louis Brandt & Frere watches (Omega and other brand names) had reached over the 1 million figure.
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