Description:
If you look at movie studio stills from the "Golden Age" of Hollywood; you know, the black and white photographs of the "Titans" of film, chances are they'll be holding a martini or smoking a cigarette or checking their watch as if they’re about to catch a train. Whatever their activity, if you look CLOSELY at their wrist, they'll be wearing a great looking Deco-era timepiece.

This was an era of such staggering class it will never, ever be imitated, never duplicated. The same thing can be said for the watches produced during this era of style and function. Sadly, no matter how much money you spend on a modern watch, you won’t be able to duplicate the styling, shape or engineering of the old classic timepieces. New watches are like remakes of classic films: They're never as good as the originals.

We could not resist offering this late Teens, early '20s-era men's "Dwelsa" wristwatch with heavily wheat-chased case and hinged bezel The classic painted metal dial has box Arabic numerals in a quintessentially Deco fashion. A sub-seconds register is graduated at 10 second intervals and indicated by a steel blued "fils" hand. Hour and minute hands are original "stained glass"; crown is "pumpkin" or "onion" and all are astonishingly original.

The 36mm by 30mm nickel silver case is in remarkably good overall condition, with no major scuffs or flaws. We've cleaned, oiled and adjusted the 6 ruby jeweled, 1 position movement, which is marked "Dwelsa Watch Company/Swiss" The watch keeps relatively accurate time considering the age of the piece, but is less a quartz accurate timepiece than a statement of taste and decorum. It is an interesting and collectible a timepiece in remarkably good overall condition. (#W1377)

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