I inherited this watch from one of my father’s aunt about 15 years ago. It was a gift from the company her husband worked for. It was purchased in 1978, but it looks a 1975 geneve model. It has 34mm width, a 1030 caliber and a not so usual dial with arabic numerals. I don’t know the exact model nr. Not sure if it is a gold case or gold plated. I use it as a dress watch sometimes.

 

Where's the caseback? The reference number is there along with the type of metal.

 

No info, hence my doubt. The caseback has an engraving with the company name, the year my father’s uncle started working there and the year he acomplished 25 years of service.

 

I can't see a Portuguese customs import stamp on any of the lugs so I would deduce that it's a locally produced case.

Often at that time, movements were imported and cased in their home country as a way of reducing import taxes, especially for precious metals.

I have a very similar Genève presented to my Dad for his retirement, also in 1977.

As for identification, it's an Omega Genève with a locally produced gold case.

 

@JimInOz nailed it

It’s a caliber 1030 in a locally made case. Great family heirloom.

 

Thank you, I didn’t know that local casing was a thing back in the days.

 

I did not know that cases were sometimes produced locally and assembled with imported movements. There would be quite a number of subtle variations in case designs. Did this apply to a lot of brands?

 

Quite often with a lot of brands in many countries.

For example, the Norman Morris company in the US imported Omega movements and had cases made by local case making companies and sold them as genuine Omegas as they were the accredited Omega agent for the USA at that time.
This example was repeated many times in other countries.

 

Very common for most brands in many countries but only for gold cases, since back in the days trade of precious metals was very heavily taxed all over the world.

 

My father’s aunt went through some tough times after her husband’s death, even lived in the streets for some time before reaching to my father’s side of the family. The watch was one of very few items she had to remember him, and even hungry at times she could not sell it. So you see, even if it does not have monetary value in the market to anyone else, it is valuable to me. But thank you for your ironic input.

 

I was not insulting the piece in any way. Please don’t take what I wrote as anything but saying it’s a great piece for the family, this has no bearing or comment on value. I’ve said the same thing on 100 dollar watches and 100,000 dollar pieces.

You can’t buy a family heirloom... and many of us wish we had one.

 

The only stamp mark I find in the case is the one in the picture. But it looks like a local gold stamp, thus I believe it really is a local case. Thanks a lot!!

 

Sorry if I misinterpreted it, my bad. I read it like it was rubish - and, well, to be honest, it’s not really a horological prodigy, haha. My apologies.