The Verdant Movado Datron Is the Perfect Watch to Celebrate the Start of Spring
This new automatic Datron addition to the watchmaker’s Heritage Series features a shade of green that is particularly easy to appreciate right now.
By Mike Espindle
Executive Editor
Of course, you could be reading this from anywhere, but many portions of the globe are just now emerging from something of an old-fashioned, fairly epic winter season. And now, as some of us anxiously await the arrival of spring, even a small reminder of warmer weather to come can bring a smile to our faces.
Perhaps that is why I couldn’t help but smile when I first saw this recent execution of Movado’s Heritage Datron. So, let’s take a look at it.
A Focus on Heritage
The Datron is not only an enduring model for Movado, but it is also a defining piece of its Heritage Series watches, which draw on modern examples from the watchmaker’s extensive design catalog (dating back to 1881). In this 40mm automatic stainless steel and 316L stainless steel link bracelet execution, we see a kind of timeless, harmonious approach to a day/date daily wear timepiece; familiar, yes, but also likely to be always appropriate.
The circular dial lies atop a more elongated, tonneau-ish case bottom, allowing for very deep lug attachments for the three-piece link bracelet, which feeds right up to the outer circular bezel.
Meanwhile, an exhibition caseback adds a dash of formality to this straightforward wrist companion, and some hand and index lume injects a bit of sportiness for this two-hander, making it a very flexible timepiece for any occasion.
Easy Green
Some sophisticated gold-tone index and hand embellishments (as well as a gold-tone frame for the date window at 3 o’clock) jump up the dial’s presentation, but, getting back to my smile, it’s all about this particularly nice shade of green on the dial.
Movado calls it “cypress green,” and I find that a pretty apt description. Not quite a dark, piney forest green or even olive green, and certainly not a lush tropical light green or mint, the color strikes an appealing mid-point, indicating its own almost herbaceous sense of botanical health (and a shade I happen to be pretty desperate to see out my office window sometime soon).
Final Thoughts
While this new addition to the Heritage Series certainly leans into the familiar mid-century design from the Datron model’s introduction in the late 1960s, here’s hoping this handsome glimmer of green portends some sunny rebirth in our imminent future.
You can jump-start your own spring awakening on your wrist for $1,495. For more information, check out the Movado website.