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Swiss dial manufactures of the 1930s-1940s

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I m currently researching a manufacture who seems to ne completely unknown: "Steiger"

This dial is from 1920.

Please let me know if anybody has information?
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Please let me know if anybody has information?
This source notes that "Steiger...was one of Switzerland’s most coveted dial-makers of the 19th and early 20th centuries" apparently for LeCoultre and IWC. A search of the interwebs places the Steiger name on high-end pocket watch dials.
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This source notes that "Steiger...was one of Switzerland’s most coveted dial-makers of the 19th and early 20th centuries" apparently for LeCoultre and IWC. A search of the interwebs places the Steiger name on high-end pocket watch dials.
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Thank you for sharing! That’s interesting. I did not find a single source in the internet yet. Would be great to reveal a bit more. As we can’t conclude that a single Le Coultre pw gives an evidence for a strong relationship between Le Coultre and Steiger. My dial is Longines...
 
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beautiful but this is not associated to any manufacture? Or is it?

it is. It’s S s a. Possibly Singer SA ?
 
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Stern Frerès, circa 1942
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"perfect technique, flawless design" : these guys were unabashedly confident of the quality of their product!
 
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Two silver dials by Stern Frères for Omega pocket-watches.
The first (diameter 38 mm) from a 1928 calibre 35M L has distinctive, contrasting vertical stripes.

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On the back are a STERN FRERES - ARGENT stamp and the 4-digit number 2323. Also scratched on the back are ‘C&G Madison Omega’. I suppose the name ‘Madison’ may have been the name given to this style?

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The second dial is a ‘NOS’ replacement that has not been used - so I don’t know what calibre it fits. It is also a Stern Frères silver dial, diameter 42 mm, and on the back are the 4-digit number 8288 and the same STERN FRERES - ARGENT stamp.

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So it’s possible that Stern Frères assigned a 4-digit number to the silver dials they made for Omega.
 
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Apologies to OP @Syrte - this and my last are a bit before the 1930-1940 period you quoted: I hope still of interest.
Also @Vitezi @divetime.

A gilded Steiger dial for an Omega pocket watch 18’’’P L, diameter 43 mm, approximately 1918.

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These are the sorts of ideas Bakunin and Marx put into their heads...
Never too late for an update to a major thread drift, according to this new and very serious public television story (in French), called the “ticking of anarchism”, the Swiss watch industry created anarchism as the Swiss laborers stood against the very strict organization imposed by the manufactures.
And it is no coincidence if the founding conference of the anarchist movement was held in 1872 Saint-Imier, home of the oldest manufacture, Longines.

One of the historians interviewed in the piece is Stephanie Lachat, former Longines historian and head of its Brand Heritage department (her doctorate thesis bears on the condition of women in the Swiss watch industry).
The story also talks about the rise of those movements in La Chaux de Fond.
Below at 19 minutes for those who speak French.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11557...sfSqYriqoi8rQRO8zmAf2M0Bdc5g7LFEYDYRWmBgT5gFw

The story must also be available in German as the broadcaster is the French-German TV Arte.
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