Stunning Ollendorff art deco wristwatch in platinum and fine clear diamonds. Unique, high art deco design with approximately 1.25+ carats of 10 baguette and round brilliant cut diamonds in a pyramid or ziggarat design reminiscent of a skyscraper. This manual wind, 17 jewel Swiss made watch is fully signed Ollendorff on the dial and the movement, including XGHW, IXO and 2957. It is further signed 900 platinum and 100 iridium on the case. The baguettes are bezel set and you can see the light pouring through in the photo of the back. Comes for a watchmakers collection in North Georgia. It has a lovely black cord band and is ready to wear. One of the photo's shows a 1928 Saturday Evening Post full page ad for Ollendorff 1868 - 1928 celebrating 60 years of watchmaking. The simple 14kt carat watch at the bottom was priced at a staggering (for the time) $250.00. Ollendorff is also well known for the simple yet elegant and very expensive gold pocketwatches.
CONDITION: The watch is running and keeping time. Cosmetically it is in lovely condition.
SIZE: The dial and lugs are very impressive measuring 40mm in length and 14mm wide. The cord bands fits a 7 inch wrist but can be exchanged for a larger or smaller wrist.
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Downsizing was inevitable and I've done it several times already. This is the big one, and I am still unboxing treasures retrieved from storage after decades.
All pieces are one of a kind handpicked by yours truly over 40 years to add texture, style and story to your authentic style.
My collecting story starts after watching Astaire and Rogers float across a dance floor as a young girl, I have loved art deco design, art, fashion and jewelry. So bold and beautiful, and so different from anything that came before it. Art deco changed social and design sensibilities forever. A lifetime collector of high quality antiques and vintage, I started by making contacts, researching and learning. Picking the best of the best, I live with art deco and vintage decor and used to wear the fashions of the day. To say that I feel in love is an understatement. I reveled in the fact that I was able to reflect my unique style and sensibilities with a marriage of old and new.
Since I was in my teens I have bought what pleases me, what I find beautiful and unique, and the things that speak to me on a creative level. I hope that you can see and feel the passion and love that I feel for antiques and vintage pieces and share with you. You will find art deco, collectible and vintage fine art paintings, original illustrations and magazine covers, home decor, marble, alabaster and metal lamps, nude flapper table lamps, sterling silver decorative accents and tableware for the home and entertaining, designer and estate jewelry and fine vintage watches in my shop.