Help Identify watch & find similar

I just had my manual winding watch fixed but forgot to ask for identifying info. They replaced the crown. I’m curious what it is worth (belonged to my mother) but also if Omega or any under company still makes adult looking watches this small?

The small face is perfect for my small wrist (pencil for scale) and in all my searching I haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else. Hoping to find this size but automatic, maybe even an alarm.

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⚠️ Possible franken entry!

Bought this old beauty from a friend’s neighbor, a nice bloke in his late seventies. Told me the watch had been lying in his drawer for decades.

I naturally assumed it to be a ref. 2605 “spider lug”. Much to my surprise, when opened, I found a 1945 30T2 movement and a back case with ref. 2608 stamp!

Here’s a 2608.
Anyway, I intend to keep it. You don’t see dials in this conditions every day.

If anybody can enlighten me about this…

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