Apex Vintage – Art Déco

Elegant vintage Apex watch in Art Deco taste, dating to the 1930s/1940s, featuring a distinctive cushion-shaped case and silvered dial with stylized Arabic numerals. The blued hands and small seconds counter at 6 o’clock complete an aesthetic typical of the period’s watchmaking.

Apex is among the historic vintage Swiss houses producing well-made timepieces, often imported or distributed in European markets, characterized in that period by a very strong Art Deco influence.

• Brand: Apex
• Period: 1930s/1940s
• Movement: Hand-wound mechanical
• Case: Cushion-shaped, gilt finish
• Case diameter: 32 mm
• Dial: Silvered with natural age patina
• Indices: Stylized Arabic numerals
• Hands: Blued
• Strap: Generic brown leather
• Buckle: Generic
• Crown: Generic
• Condition: NOS (New Old Stock) 
• Functions: Hours, minutes and small seconds
• Small seconds: Counter at 6 o’clock
• Case back: Plain
• Special feature: Shaped case with wire lugs, a technical solution inherited from pocket watches modified for the wrist (the so-called trench watches of World War I), before the invention of modern spring-bar lugs.