Henri Sandoz & Fils All Silver 33mm 17 Jewel Watch

A 1970's watch in excellent condition, running to time, black raised batons and Arabic numerals on a silver dial, centre sweep seconds, looking good, working well. Chrome on Brass Case 33mmx39mm.
Henri Frédéric Sandoz (sometimes Frédéric Henri Sandoz), born in 1851,[1] was a self-made man of Le Locle who in the 1870s founded Henri Sandoz & Cie., later producing complicated watches under the name of Cyma. In 1890, in partnership with two families named Schwob, Sandoz established a watchmaking firm at Malleray, near Tavannes, in the French-speaking Bernese Jura of Switzerland.[2] Their new business was known as Tavannes Watch Co.[3] By the time of the death of Sandoz on 18 March 1913, many watches were made under the name of Henri Sandoz & Fils. The enterprise occupied a 'model factory' employing one thousand workers and producing 2,500 watches a day.[4] Sandoz was reported to have a paternalistic policy towards his workforce, exercising a fierce social control.[5][6]
Other names used by the Tavannes company at various times include Tavannes-Cyma, Bijou Watch Co., Tacy Watch Co., and Lisca. After the death of Sandoz, the company he founded went on growing. By 1938, it was manufacturing four thousand items a day.