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Lot 589 - Auction 261

MOVADO ERMETO: travelling purse watch - ca. 1950
Estimate:
300,00/500,00 €
Starting price:
140,00 EUR
Current bid:
150,00 EUR
Bids:
2

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Lot status:
Auction closed

Description

MOVADO ERMETO: travelling purse watch - ca. 1950

MOVADO ERMETO metal purse watch signed ""Hausmann & Co. Ermeto"". Manual winding starts by closing and opening the two sliding parts characterised by a special thousand-stripe design. Dial, case and movement signed. In working order. This is an innovative watch model which, while still having the characteristics of a pocket watch, can be used as a travel watch. Indeed, towards the 1950s, larger models were to be made to be placed on a desk or on a bedside table next to the bed. Announced in 1926 they spread all over the world. A new term was coined for it: 'purse watch', i.e. a watch that, unlike the 'pocket watch' (a man's watch), could also be a woman's watch and carried in a handbag. There will be various models covered not only in leather, but also in metal, gold, silver and enamel. Just as there will be ones with different functions: time only, alarm clock, calendar and moon phases.


Width 48 mm - 73 mm open.

Item condition grading: **** good. Although it seems in working order, it could need a minor overhauling and/or control before use.

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