Bring a Loupe: A Black-Dialed Rose Gold Patek Ref. 96, A Movado Dial That Led To The Royal Oak, And A Pair Of French Auction Finds

Within the classic period, Movado used solely the perfect case and dial suppliers in Switzerland — the identical corporations making elements for Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, and Audemars Piguet. Considered one of which was the grasp dialmaker Stern Créations SA. Movado contracted Stern for a lot of of their dials throughout the catalog, however within the early Nineteen Seventies, the model reached out to a guilloché dial specialist to execute this, a Saint Christopher dial. La Nationale, the guilloché knowledgeable, was situated subsequent door to Stern in Geneva. As a result of unlucky loss of life of a craftsman at La Nationale, the corporate was unable to finish Movado’s order for roughly 50 of those dials. So, in 1971, La Nationale subcontracted Stern to make this batch of dials, gifting seven machines for this particular kind of guilloché engraving and 300 sample designs to go together with them.