No, not all cases were Swiss Made. Many countries had stiff tariffs on gold watches, so uncased movements were shipped by Omega to be cased in locally made cases. Among others, the US, UK and many South American countries all had these tariffs. Additionally some countries like the US had a limit as to the number of jewels a movement could have before being levied a tax or tariff, 17-jewels was the magic number in the US, anything over 17-jeweles would be taxed.
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