Movado "Fab. Suisse" Chronograph M90 in yellow gold and carrying the full weight

and carrying the full weight of the maison's decorative vocabulary

the Ellipse takes on a cooler

it wears with the discreet authority of a watch that has nothing to prove — present on the wrist without imposing

The factory dial would have been silver

Louis Cartier conceived it in 1917

Movado "Fab. Suisse" Chronograph M90 in yellow gold and carrying the full weightMovado in the late 1940s and early 1950s produced some of the most accomplished chronographs of the era pieces that combined genuine technical ambition with a dial clarity that many better known contemporaries struggled to match. The M90 calibre, Movado's in house chronograph movement of the period, is among the finest achievements of that generation: a column wheel mechanism of proven reliability, built entirely within the manufacture. The dial is a