VERY RARE VINTAGE ANTIQUE PRISTINE CONDITION MOVADO WATCH CATALOG No 142 1956

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RARE VINTAGE ANTIQUE FULL MOVADO WATCH AND CLOCK CATALOGUE OF YEAR 1956 CAT No 142 DO NOT MISS IT C/10 CONDITION FACTORY FRESH ( CATALOGUE ONLY REMOVED FOR PHOTOGRAPHS OTHERWISE WAS IN ONE CORNER ) TOTAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF WATCHES CLOCKS AND POCKET WATCHES = 281 TOTAL PAGES = 72 INCLUDING COVERS LENGTH = 14.5 Cm BREADTH 10.5 Cm BINDERS USED ON CATALOGUE SLIGHTLY RUSTED DUE TO AGE THIS AUCTION IS FOR A VERY VERY RARE FULL MOVADO CATALOGUE OF YEAR 1956 CATALOGUE No 142 PLEASE SEE PHOTOGRAPHS FOR EXACT CONDITION TOTALLY UNUSED NEW IN CONDITION ACTUAL ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS Movado is and was a company dated back to 1881. This company was at first the workshop of a young Swiss, Achille Ditesheim, who moved with his family from Alsace, France, to the village of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss Jura Mountains in 1876. In 1881 Ditesheim was 19, and he set himself up in business with six craftsmen to manufacture watches. His small workshop grew quickly, so that by 1897 it employed 80 watchmakers. It had become one of the largest watch manufacturers in all Switzerland, and was noted for its technological sophistication. Early for its time, Ditesheim's company used electricity and advanced machinery in place of the simple hand tools of other watchmakers. Achille Ditesheim gave his company the name Movado in 1905, choosing a word meaning "always in motion" in the then flourishing international language of Esperanto. Movado was always an admired innovator in technology and design. In 1912 its Polyplan watch pioneered a curved design, with movements specially engineered to conform to an elongated case that followed the plane of the wearer's wrist. Movado's designs also won top awards at the Paris, Brussels, and Liege world expositions. The company became internationally prominent, and by 1920 Movado was making more than 700 different wristwatch models. Two of its most famous watches from the 1920s were the Valentino and the Ermeto. The Valentino was inspired by the glamorous star of the silent screen Rudolf Valentino. It was encased in sensuous snakeskin. The Ermeto was a handheld watch in a small box, the forerunner of the travel clock. Opening the case revealed the timepiece, and the motion automatically wound the watch. It was an ingenious design, which the company promoted with extensive advertising. Movado produced its Ermeto watch in a variety of styles, including etched gold or silver, and several enameled versions such as a striking black and white checkerboard design. The more luxurious Ermeto watches were trimmed with precious stones. Movado continued to produce complicated and innovative watches in ensuing decades. In the 1930s the company manufactured one of the first digital watches, and as early as 1935 Movado was making water-resistant watches in both round and rectangular styles. In 1945 the company debuted the world's first automatic winding wristwatch. This was called the Tempomatic. By 1956 the Tempomatic had been retooled into the Kingmatic. This was an automatic watch designed to be extremely rugged, and it was one of Movado's best sellers in the 1950s and 1960s. Movado's signature Museum Watch was first manufactured for sale in 1962. An American artist, Nathan George Horwitt, designed the stark, black, numberless dial watch in 1947, and in 1960 Horwitt donated his prototype to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Movado agreed to produce the Horwitt watch in 1962, and it went on to become one of the world's bestselling dial designs PLEASE GIVE ME MY 5 STAR FEEDBACK BECAUSE I STRIVE FOR IT PLEASE EMAIL FOR ANY EXTRA PHOTOGRAPHS or DOUBTS BEFORE BIDDING MY EMAIL Brought as you see Look at the pictures for the exact condition Condition is as you see in the photographs More Photos down below Please check out my other auctions! All international buyers can make a payment through PAY PAL. The product will be sent once the payment is done. We will ship the product within 10 working ... read more

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