Movado Ermeto Moonphase Travel Clock

Sure, Analog:Shift is a business built around the love of watches — mostly mechanical watches. But, in essence, it’s our love for timepieces and timekeeping in general that are the common themes throughout the items we procure. And that includes the love of clocks in general: pocket watches, travel clocks, and more. 

After all, in the couple-hundred years before the First World War, personal timekeeping was all about the pocket watch, and before that, it was larger clocks that were front and center, horologically. We still believe a good clock — such as a classic travel model from the 1920s or 1930s — has a place in the watch lover’s collection.

This particular timepiece is a vintage Ermeto travel clock from Movado. Fitted to a case designed by Hugenin Frères in 1926, the mechanical Ermeto was produced until 1985, making the model a collector's dream. Available in four different sizes, it was designed to be carried in a purse or other bag and featured a rectangular case that slid open to reveal the timepiece's dial and winding crown. 

Measuring 50mm x 36mm in its compact form, this Normal-sized model features a stainless steel enclosure covered in attractive black leather. What's more, this is no typical Ermeto, but a complicated version equipped with day, date, month, and moonphase displays — a true triple-calendar. Its silvered dial features an outer applied minute track, applied 'dart' indices, an inner radial date display, day and month apertures, a moonphase display at 3 o'clock, and a 'alpha' handset with pointer-date hand that all beautifully capture the early-20th-century time period from which it stems. Inside is a hand-cranking movement from Movado that is wound via the 12 o'clock crown.

A highly collectable object, the Ermeto is a timeless example of excellent horological and industrial design. (Even more so when it comes with its correct box, as this one does.) Set it on a bookshelf or dresser as a reminder of a bygone era; or use it to keep modern time!

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