1950's Helvetia Automatic Gentleman's 33mm Watch

Swiss Helvetia automatic wristwatch c1955 in a gold plated case made with stainless steel back on a brow leather strap with gilt buckle. Restored dial to match the original with polished gilt batons and numerals and matching hands with red sweep seconds.  Swiss signed Helvetia calibre 838, 28 jewelled lever automatic fully overhauled and keeping time. 
Case size - 34mmx44mm, strap fitting - 16mm.
This watch has been serviced and is guaranteed for a period of 6 months.
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.