Curious sterling silver pocket watch

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Hi guys,

just joined the forum. Love to see so much useful information about Omega in one place!

I bought this Omega pocket watch an year ago for about USD 400. Bought it mainly for the rare hands, never seen those before. According to the serial No. it dates back to the 20s. I couldn’t find more info on it.

I would greatly appreciate if someone could comment more on the watch: originality of the dial and hands mainly.
 
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All looks completely original in my opinion.

It's an Omega Art Deco Lépine in a silver case (Swiss Bear hallmark and 900 stamp). It has a silvered dial with "Serpentine" hands and Arabic numerals in an Art Deco style.
You are correct about the date, a couple of years either side of 1920 maybe.

Caliber is most likely a 35.5L.
 
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All looks completely original in my opinion.

It's an Omega Art Deco Lépine in a silver case (Swiss Bear hallmark and 900 stamp). It has a silvered dial with "Serpentine" hands and Arabic numerals in an Art Deco style.
You are correct about the date, a couple of years either side of 1920 maybe.

Caliber is most likely a 35.5L.
Thank you very much for the info!
 
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In Switzerland, silver of .900 fineness is mostly referred to as “coin” silver. Not sterling.


0.900 silver
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Swiss 900 silver
Sometimes a standard mark of fineness of 900‰ or 0.900 is seen. This was never introduced into Swiss law as a standard, but 0.900 fineness silver was a popular grade in a number of European and other countries because it was the standard of coin silver. Watch cases that were to exported to a country where 0.900 was the standard were stamped by the manufacturer “0.900” as shown in the picture here, and submitted for assay and hallmarking as normal.