1930s 14ct gold rectangular vintage Tissot watch
Date: 1935
Case: 14ct gold, 23 x 34mm (excluding lugs)
Movement: Manual wind
Dial: Champagne with Arabic numerals to quarters
Lugs: 18mm
A 1930s gold rectangular vintage Tissot watch, with wonderful ‘Art Deco’ dial!
A 1935, 14ct gold rectangular vintage Tissot watch. The case measures 23 x 34mm (excluding lugs), with 18mm lugs.The case is signed Tissot, marked 14ct gold and numbered. The manual wind movement is signed Tissot, with 15 jewels and numbered. The champagne dial has raised gold Arabic numerals to the quarters, subsidiary seconds dial and fine gilt ‘feuille’ hands. The dial is signed Tissot above the centre.
Tissot Watch Company
Tissot was founded in 1853 by Charles-Félicien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the Neuchâtel area of the Jura Mountains. Charles-Emile Tissot left for Russia in 1858, successfully selling their savonette pocket watches throughout the Russian Empire. Tissot merged with watch company Omega SA in 1930, forming SSIH (Société Suisse pour l’Industrie Horlogère), and Tissot-Omega watches from this era are sought after by collectors.
Tissot’s first engagement as an official timekeeper was in 1938, timing a series of ski races in Villars-sur-Ollon, near the company’s home town in the Jura mountains. Tissot was used for timing downhill skiing in Switzerland in 1938, and for the Davis Cup in 1957.
