1929

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• The Amtorg Trading Corporation, a Russian organization, orders to buy up all the machines and parts of the North American Dueber-Hampdon Watch Co. and to transport them to Russia, where they are used to build an own Russian watch industry.

• The watch manufacturer Minerva is created by renaming "Robert Villeret Frères" to "Minerva SA, Villeret".

• LeCoultre introduces Cal. 101, the smallest watch movement to date.