Movado
A Swiss watchmaker founded in 1881 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, famed for the Museum Watch and its minimalist single-dot dial inspired by the noon sun.
About Movado
Movado was founded in 1881 when nineteen-year-old Achille Ditesheim opened a small workshop with six watchmakers in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. In 1905 the growing company adopted the name Movado, Esperanto for "always in motion," reflecting its ambition to push watchmaking forward.
Movado is best known for the Museum Watch, designed by Nathan George Horwitt in 1947 and defined by a single gold dot at 12 o'clock representing the sun at high noon, a dial so influential it entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.