1940s 14ct gold vintage Movado Triple Date Calendograph watch (4620)

£2,685.00

Date:           1940s

Case:            14ct Gold, 32.5mm

Movement: Calibre 470

Dial:             Champagne  Arabic numerals

Lugs:            16mm

A stunning example of one of Movado’s most iconic Calendograph watches!

A 1940s, 14ct gold vintage Movado Calendograph watch. The case measures 32.5 mm in diameter with 16mm lug size, with personal engraving to the back ‘SJC 12-25-41’. The case is signed Movado Factories, Switzerland, FB Patent, marked 14k gold and numbered with reference 44788. The 470 calibre, manual wind movement is signed Movado Factories, with 17 jewels, unadjusted and numbered. The two-tone dial has gold raised Arabic numerals, with subsidiary seconds, fine gilt hands, a blue outside calendar track, with day and month apertures either side of the centre. The dial is signed Movado above the centre.

Movado Calendograph

The Calendograph was introduced in 1938, with the calibre 470 movement, one of Movado’s most important lines. A number of different models were produced with varying case and dial designs. The Calendograph models were exhibited at the 1940 World’s Fair in New York and also the Basel Watch Fairs during the 1940s. Production of calibre 470 movement ceased in 1954.

Winston Churchill was presented with a gold Calendograph with ‘turtle’ lugs in September 1946 by Swiss citizens as a testimony of their admiration. Andy Warhol also owned several vintage Movado watches, including a Calendograph.