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1881
<p>In the village of La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Achilles Ditesheim, a 19-year old entrepreneur, hires six watchmakers and opens a small workshop </p>
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1905
<p>Ditesheim changes the name of his company to Movado, meaning “always in motion” in the artificial international language of Esperanto </p>
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1912
<p>The Polyplan is created, with its revolutionary, patented movement constructed on three planes, to fit a case curved to follow the natural contours of the wrist </p>
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1925
<p>An elegant cushion-shaped Movado Pocket Watch with highly decorative, hand-enameled gold case is created for the 1925 Paris “Exposition des Arts Décoratifs” </p>
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1926
<p>The Ermeto is launched: a unique pillow-shaped watch with a patented movement automatically wound by the sliding motion of the case as it is opened and closed </p>
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1930
<p>The 1930s represent a decade of brilliant creativity during which the early Movado Digital Watch, with an innovative display of both hours and minutes, is introduced </p>
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1946
<p>The new epoch in wrist calendar watches begins with the debut of the advanced, self-winding Calendomatic, featuring month and day apertures and central date indicator </p>
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1947
<p>The single dot watch dial that will earn world renown as The Movado Museum Watch is created by Nathan George Horwitt, the first artist to explore the concept of time as design </p>
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1956
<p>The acclaimed Kingmatic series of rotor-driven timepieces is introduced, marking a technological advancement in automatic wristwatches </p>
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1981
<p>Uniting the dot motif from the celebrated Museum dial with the sportive spirit of stainless steel, Movado launches the highly popular, original Sports Edition bracelet watch </p>
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1988
<p>The Movado Artists’ Series is launched with the “Andy Warhol ‘Times/5’ ”, a bracelet of five self-contained watch cases with dials featuring cityscapes of New York City </p>
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1990
<p>French-born, world famous painter/sculptor Arman designs “The Colour of Time”, produced in a limited edition of 200 pieces for the Movado Artists’ Series </p>
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1991
<p>Post-modern American artist James Rosenquist creates “Elapse, Eclipse, Ellipse”, a highly unusual timepiece housing three independent mechanical movements, for the Movado Artists’ Series </p>
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1993
<p>Swiss artist Max Bill, founder of the logical school of art designated Concrete Art, achieves an intricate harmony of color in “bill-time”, commissioned by Movado for its Artists’ Series </p>
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1994
<p>“Children of the World”, the first Movado watch designed to raise funds for worthy causes, is created for the Movado Artists’ Series by Brazilian-born Pop Artist Romero Britto </p>
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1996
<p>The introduction of Vizio, a post-modern watch design of architectural inspiration that expresses Movado’s unwavering commitment to design innovation </p>
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2000
<p>A classic style takes futuristic form with the debut of the Movado SE, an evolution of the original Sports Edition design with a new, sleekly sculptured silhouette </p>
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2001
<p>The Elliptica wristwatch is revealed, with its gracefully curved case and striking linear dial: avant garde yet classic, the essence of Movado </p>
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2003
<p>Debut of the Museum Automatic - Movado’s legendary single dot dial, an icon of Modernism, is offered in a watch with a fine 21-jewel self-winding movement and sapphire crystal case back </p>
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2005
<p>Strato, the first watch to feature Movado’s patent-pending Museum Setting - a diamond bezel that lies protected beneath the sapphire crystal, creating a look of brilliant mystery - is launched </p>
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2006
<p>Commemorating 125 years of design innovation, Movado introduces the M125 collection of watches featuring a stark, modern dial marked only by the numerals 1, 2 and 5 </p>
