1929 Daphne
case 1928, movement 1929
Nice Daphne. I thought we date according to case? Case is from 1928 with New York signature.
Daphne
1928 Daphne would be my call. The movt most likely has been replaced.
I love these enameled cases, this one is beautiful. I think it should be 1929 as well, I know the case is '28 but only one year off on the movement makes it a '29 to me.
Daphne.
I'm going with 1929 Daphne. Movement jewel count matches, although I don't think we see the 5AP in anything except 15 jewels.
Alex, if the case date and movement date are "close" and there's no obvious indication of a movement swap (although this happened often), we date as most recent. There's the scenario where case was manufactured end of 1928 and not fitted w/ movement until after the holidays.....
...or its a movement swap w/ another 5AP....but our convention is to use the latter date for these instances.
Compare the engravings on the side of subject watch to Dacca's 1929 example here.