Today, Movado is probably best known for producing accessibly-priced fashion watches such as the always-popular Museum Watch collection. But from the 1930s through the 1960s, the brand made tough, purpose-driven timepieces that stood up against anything being turned out by the larger, more well known marques. Indeed, Movado's design language up through the 1970s was nothing short of breathtaking. The company released water-resistant wristwatches as early as 1935, and by the 1960s was producing dive watches to compete with the era's better known offerings from companies such as Rolex or Omega. The Sub-Sea range consisted of divers and chronographs alike, with plenty of variety in case size, dials, and movement offerings. Dating to circa the circa 1960s, this M95 Sub-Sea Chronograph is an absolute gem of a midcentury piece to rival the best. Housed in a 35mm 14K yellow gold case with an onion crown, dual pump pushers, an acrylic crystal, and a screw-down caseback, it features a lovely brushed silver dial with an outer tachymeter scale, an inner 'snail' telemeter scale, applied indices, recessed chronograph totalizers, and a combination luminescent 'baton' and signature M95 'kriss' handset, the latter of which features within the chronograph registers. Powered by the brand's famed Calibre M95 manual-winding chronograph movement, it comes paired to an 18mm Iskenderun Beige Nubuck Strap from Analog:Shift with a gold pin buckle. Perfectly sized for both men and women and beautifully preserved, this gorgeous chronograph combines 1940s aesthetics with 1960s technology in a package that still looks modern today. Hitting well above its weight class, there's much to love about it. We're sure you'll agree!
