Movado Watches

Movado was begun in 1881 by Achille Ditesheim when he was just 19 years old. From the beginning in the La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the company has become one of the worlds best in wristwatch design and innovation. From the start with just 6 employees Ditesheim held relentlessly to his ideals of quality and innovation and this brought the company to win many awards at the Universal Exhibitions in Paris including a fantastic silver medal in 1900.  Soon they were winning lots of international awards and patents for wristwatch design and innovation in timepiece technologies. Ditesheim's innovation didn't actually begin with the Movado watch name which translates as "always in motion" in Esperanto. The name was not actually formerly adopted until 1905. In 1947 Nathan George Horwitt was employed as a designer and created the first Museum Watch which was based on the idea of a sundial, with it's now trademark plain dial and single gold dot marker at 12 o'clock. They later hired famous artists such as Andy Warhol to design unique artistic limited edition Movado watches. In the 1950's they produced the KingMatic which had an automatic winding mechanism and a second hand on the same central spindle as the hour and minute hands. The KingMatic has been re-introduced just recently and brings the original features up to date with the modern technologies but retains the classic Movado watch designs. In 1960 Hewitt's original museum watch design was decided to be so iconic that it was selected to be displayed in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This and many other artist designed wristwatches still exist in museum collections around the world. It was this that led to the now famous dial design being known as the museum watch and has now evolved into a complete collection of men's and women's Movado watches. Movado is now one of worlds leading luxury wristwatch makers.