Manufacturer
Movado
Also recorded as: L.A.C. Ditesheim · Ditesheim
La Chaux-de-Fonds maker of the Ermeto purse watch and the minimalist Museum Watch.
Achille Ditesheim founded the firm in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1881; the Movado name ('always in motion' in Esperanto) was adopted in 1905. Movado produced the Ermeto (1926), whose sliding case covers wound the movement, and the Museum Watch based on a 1947 design by Nathan George Horwitt with a single dot at twelve.
- Country
- Switzerland
- City / centre
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Founded
- 1881
- Status
- Active (Movado Group)
- Key people
- Achille Ditesheim; Nathan George Horwitt (designer)
Innovations & specialities
- Ermeto self-winding purse watch (1926)
- Museum Watch dial (from a 1947 design)
Works by Movado in the catalogue
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Wristwatches · circa 1920s
Movado Chronometre, ref. 41536, circa 1920s
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Wristwatches · circa 1930's
Movado "calatrava", ref. 17726, circa 1930's
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Pocket Watches · circa 1960s
Movado Ermetophone, circa 1960s
Antiquorum auction archive, Geneva
Wristwatches · ca.1989
Steel, France and Switzerland, 1989; designed by Yaacov Agam (born 1928) for a limited edition by Movado
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Clocks · 1989
Clocks Clocks
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Linked through the Atlas maker authority list, which reconciles the spellings used by different institutions. Attributions are as stated by each holding institution or auction house.
