JCKstyle - October 26, 2007
Sixty years ago, Bauhaus-influenced industrial designer Nathan George Horwitt put a time-telling icon on our wrists. That watch, Movado’s now-famous Museum Dial, with its modern aesthetic, was the occasion of celebration Wednesday night. And celebrate Movado did, punctuating—like the dot on Horwitt’s dial—its commitment to design and the arts by throwing a gala at New York’s decadent Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
The watches, lit in streamlined display cases, stood as auspicious specters for upcoming artistic talents. Future Legends, Movado calls them, and for its second consecutive year Movado showed its devotion to nurturing them.
Brand ambassadors and actresses Mia Maestro and Kerry Washington delivered introductory remarks, and 2007’s recipients, design team Doshi Levien and dancers Kirk Henning and Doug Letheren, shyly accepted accolades and their crystal awards from living legends Paul Warwick Thompson, Suzanne Farrell, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. (Future Legends also received watches and $10,000 grants from Movado, behind the scenes.)
The evening’s highlight was an intimate but rousing performance by Movado brand ambassador and charismatic jazz master Wynton Marsalis and one of last year’s Future Legends, Jonathan Batiste, tinkling the ivories. Past, present, and future rolled into one? Legendary indeed.
Weekly Gem
Celebrities and watches were the theme of the week in New York. As Movado applauded the arts, Tissot hosted a luncheon with a very different brand ambassador—race car driver Danica Patrick. Patrick was on hand to help the watch company launch their newest collection, including Patrick’s own limited-edition diamond T-Touch, a high-tech watch that—like the woman herself—defies the idea of a man’s world by offering skills and substance in a beautiful, decidedly feminine form.
