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A gorgeous 1940's solid 18k gold European market Movado dress watch with fancy horn lugs, beautifully patina'd original dial and superb quality Movado caliber 470 movement within, just serviced and keeping great time. This watch has a wonderful vintage feel with a thick, heavy gold case housing the classy Arabic number dial.
Style: Mid-Century Dress
Circa: 1940's
Case: Beautifully design and masterfully crafted solid 18k deep yellow gold case measuring 33.5mm in diameter excluding the crown with thick horn style solid lugs. Comes on a nicely matched dark brown genuine leather clip-on style 18mm strap. Inside the back is stamped with the 18k eagle gold hallmark, the Movado hand holding a pocket watch logo and Movado.
Dial: Wonderful original factory printed European market dial signed Movado Fab. Suisse, Switzerland with applied hour numbers and sub-seconds at 6:00. Lovely natural even patina matches the colour of the case beautifully and adds so much character to this already gorgeous watch. The original stick hands are also in excellent lightly patina'd condition.
Movement: High quality Movado in-house manufactured calibre 470 manual wind movement in excellent cosmetic and mechanical condition. Signed 15 Jewels, Swiss Made, Movado Factories with 470 stamped below the balance wheel. Beautiful blue steel Breguet over-coil hairspring with gold chatons holding the train wheel jewels. Just serviced and in excellent working condition keeping great time.