Movado - wikipedia Movado Not to be confused with Mavado ( disambiguation ). Movado Group, Inc. Type Public Traded as NYSE : MOV S&P 600 Component Russell 2000 Component Founded La Chaux - de-Fonds, Switzerland ( 1881 ) Founder Achille Ditesheim Gedalio Grinberg ( 1983 ) Headquarters Paramus, New Jersey, United States Key people Efraim Grinberg, Chairman and CEO ; Ricardo Quintero, President. Products Watches Revenue US $460,857,000 ( 2009 ) Operating income US $3,288,000 ( 2009 ) Net income US $2,552,000 ( 2009 ) Total assets US $440,000,000 ( 2009 ) Website movado.com Movado is a Swiss watchmaker best known for its Museum Watch. Designed in 1947 by Bauhaus - influenced artist Nathan George Horwitt, the watch dial has a very simple design dial defined by a solitary dot at 12, symbolizing the sun at high noon. It was first made by Vacheron & Constantin - Le Coultre Watches, Inc., and later produced by Movado. Horwitt 's dial was selected for the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1960, the first watch dial awarded this distinction. The single dot dial now appears in many of Movado 's timepieces. Contents 1 History 2 Watches 3 Sculpture 4 References 5 External links History Movado was founded as LAI Ditescheim & Freres SA in 1881 in La Chaux - de-Fonds, Switzerland, by Léopold Achille Isidore Ditesheim. In 1983, the company was purchased by Gedalio Grinberg, a Cuban - born Jew, who fled Fidel Castro 's Marxist Revolution in 1960 with his family. His son, Efraim Grinberg, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Movado Group, Inc. The North American President of Movado is Alan Chinich. In 2006, Movado celebrated its 125th year of watchmaking. On February 23, 1999, Movado Group, Inc. completed the sale of Piaget business to VLG North America, Inc., for approximately $30 million. Watches Movado Delphino Series, two - tone black dial - face Original `` Museum '' Watch, designed by Nathan George Horwitt, ca. 1955. Brooklyn Museum The company markets the Museum Watch, designed by the American designer Nathan George Horwitt in 1947. It was first manufactured by Vacheron & Constantin - Le Coultre Watches, Inc., Switzerland. Movado started producing an unauthorized version starting in 1948, copying Horwitt 's design. It was added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1960. Movado finally settled with Horwitt in 1975 with a payment of $29,000 ( $128,000 in 2015 dollars ). Following Horwitt 's death, Movado started heavy promotion of Horwitt and the design of the Museum Watch. Photographer Edward Steichen called Horwitt 's design `` the only truly original and beautiful one for such an object ''. Some Movado watch models have Esperanto names such as Bela ( `` beautiful '' ), Belamodo ( `` beautiful fashion '' ), Fiero ( `` pride '' ), Brila ( `` brilliant '' ), Linio ( `` line '' ), and Verto. The company 's name means `` movement '' in that language. In November 2015, Movado announced the release of the Movado Motion collection of fine Swiss made watches, powered by the Manufacture Modules Technologies ( MMT ) MotionX technology platform. The collection includes the women 's Bellina and the men 's Museum Sport models. Movado Museum Sport Motion Smartwatch powered by MotionX Sculpture Movado commissioned Time Sculpture by architect Philip Johnson. The bronze sculpture with granite base, located outside Lincoln Center in New York City, was dedicated May 19, 1999. References ^ Jump up to : The Museum Watch : 1958, Industrial Designers Society of America. Accessed January 8, 2009. Jump up ^ Movado. `` Movado Heritage ''. Retrieved 10 October 2015. Jump up ^ `` Movado Group, Inc. Completes Sale of Movado 's Piaget Business to VLG North America, Inc. ''. Jump up ^ Cook, Joan. `` Nathan Horwitt, 92 ; His Designs Included The Movado Watch ``, The New York Times, June 20, 1990. Accessed January 8, 2009. Jump up ^ `` Wristwatch Face : Nathan George Horwitt ( American, 1898 - 1990 ) '', Museum of Modern Art. Accessed January 8, 2009. Jump up ^ http://www.movado.com/ Jump up ^ Kristina Rodulfo ( November 16, 2015 ). `` Movado Debuts a Smartwatch that Actually Looks Like a Watch ''. Elle. Jump up ^ `` Dante Park : Time Sculpture at Lincoln Center ''. nycgovparks.org. Retrieved August 10, 2016. External links Official Site G Grinberg 's Obituary in the New York Times Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movado&oldid=804087984 '' Categories : Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange Companies established in 1881 Watch brands Watch manufacturing companies of the United States 1881 establishments in Switzerland Manufacturing companies based in New Jersey Hidden categories : Pages using deprecated image syntax Talk Contents About Wikipedia Esperanto Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano 日本 語 粵語 Edit links This page was last edited on 6 October 2017, at 17 : 18. About Wikipedia

Question: who designed the single gold dot synonymous with the movado watches
Answer: Nathan George Horwitt