A Growing Appreciation for Tudor

[Rodmo]

I recently received a copy of the new Tudor catalogue from my local Rolex/Tudor AD. Having spent some time going through it cover to cover, I am impressed. Tudor offers some interesting and different features which I think would appeal to many Rolex followers. I should say up front that I love my Rolex watches and likely always will. Wouldn't part with them. What I am feeling is that Tudor is a perfect complement to a Rolex collection, and not just the vintage pieces (which are more Rolex-like) but the new pieces too.

Here are a few examples of what I mean about interesting Tudor features:

-lots of size options. Day-Date (Tudor calls it Date-Day) in 39mm and 41mm. Date in 28mm, 31mm, 36mm, and 38mm. A nice Double Date (two windows for the date numbers) in 42mm. A huge number of chrono options ( eg. Grantour, Hydronaut II, Iconaut, Chronograph, Heritage ) in 41mm, 42mm, and 43mm. Divers in 31mm, 41mm, and 45mm.

-interesting combination and use of steel and ceramic in some bands and in some cases.

-interesting use of colors and hand sizes, eg. the Hydro 1200 has a red minute hand and part red writing on the dial. The Heritage chrono has an orange seconds counter and orange on the 45 minutes totalizer sub-dial.

-you can get blingy if you want (diamond dials and bezels), a diver with a rubber strap, and a really sharp dress watch like the steel/yellow gold 55003 Date.

I know that many other watch brands offer all these things, but with a Tudor I think I feel more in the Rolex family (I recently bought the Heritage chrono).

I haven't seen the Hydro 1200 (ref 25000) in the flesh, but I am really interested in seeing it with the combined steel/black ceramic band, even though I have a few Subs!! It is 45mm and IMHO pretty funky looking. This version of the Hydro 1200 sells for $4,445 in Canada.

Honest I am not a Tudor salesperson, just impressed!!