{"product_id":"18ct-gold-art-deco-enamel-dial-with-period-chain-c-1920s","title":"18ct Gold, Art Deco Enamel Dial, with Period Chain, c.1920s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 18k gold Movado from the 1920s, made for the Spanish-speaking market. White enamel dial, Geneva-stripe movement with gold chatons, and a period two-tone gold chain.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a mid-size open-face Movado in solid 18k yellow gold, dated to the 1920s by its dial style and case construction. The dial reads \"MOVADO SUIZA\" in a neat serif script, with \"Suiza\" being the Spanish word for Switzerland: a marking that places this watch's original sale in Spain or Latin America, rather than the French, German or English-language markets that account for most surviving Movado pocket watches from the period. It is an uncommon variant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is plain polished gold, cleanly proportioned, with a thin bezel, short pendant and a flush-closing back. The back is completely plain: no monogram, no engine-turning, no engraving of any kind. The gold has the even, light wear of a piece that was carried but not mistreated. Inside, the hallmarks are all present and legible: the 0.750 fineness mark in a rectangular cartouche, a Swiss gold assay stamp, serial 374455, case number 3713, and a C+C case maker's stamp on the bow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial is one of the strongest features. It is intact, free of hairlines, chips or restoration. The numerals are sharp-angled Art Deco Arabic figures in black, printed at geometric angles that were particular to the 1920s and fell out of use by the mid-1930s. These are not the round, traditional Arabic numerals found on most pocket watches of the period: they are graphic, angular, unmistakably Deco, and they give the dial a clean visual weight. The hands are Art Deco pierced steel with open rectangular apertures, oxidized to a dark tone that reads clearly against the white enamel. The subsidiary seconds dial sits at six o'clock with its own fine minute track.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is nickel-finished with Geneva stripes, signed \"MOVADO\" on the barrel bridge. It is clean and unworn, the stripes still sharp, and it runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe watch comes with a two-tone bar-link gold fob chain, alternating yellow and white sections, with a spring ring clasp. The chain is a period piece but not original to this watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Movado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54739337150803,"sku":"PW-0111","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/movado-18k-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1787767461","url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/products\/18ct-gold-art-deco-enamel-dial-with-period-chain-c-1920s","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}