With a solid gold case made by the Tudor parent company Rolex, this ladies cocktail watch is good quality.
HOW DO WE DATE THIS WATCH?
From the Chester hallmark on the inside of the case back movement we can accurately date this watch to being assayed engraved in 1956. Chester assay office closed in 1962.
CONDITION
Tudor watches were made to offer the Rolex distributors a cheaper range of watches to offer alongside the main Rolex range. To do this they used movement bought in rather than in house, but the cases were often made by Rolex themselves, and this is what we have here. You can see the inside of the case stamped R.W.Co Ltd, and some Tudor watches would also share trademarked names like Oyster and Submariner too. Showing this was a minimum of 9k gold that tells us the watch was built to see in the UK. Being a cocktail watch of this period means they had to engineer a very small mechanical movement to fit into the petite case. The manual winding 17 jewel movement is signed Tudor and copper plated, much like Omega watches of the time were too – Tudor did use good quality off the shelf movements in all of their watches, and this one is running nicely too. The dial shows patina but has applied numbers for the hour markers. Usually on gold cased watches these markers and the hands were made of gold too but we have no way of knowing that for 100% certain here. They are not tarnished though, but there is a scratch between 7 and 8 which shows up much more on the enlarged photographs than in real life. The Excaliber expanding bracelet has been cleaned in our ultrasonic bath, and while it is rolled gold rather than gold plated it does show some wear.
This watch will be supplied with our branded presentation box and our Certificate of Authenticity.
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SIZE
Width with crown 17.9 mm
Width without crown 16.3 mm
Lug to lug length 26.8 mm
Case Thickness 7.0 mm
Bracelet will fit a maximum wrist size of 180 mm. It will fit a variety of wrist sizes, but probably best suited to 160-180mm
All sizes are approximate. The watch is photographed on a wrist of 150mm/6 inches.
Included with this watch is a 3 month guarantee and free delivery to UK addresses. If you live outside the UK we can still deliver to most countries. Please see our Worldwide Shipping information, or Contact Us. Payment can be made by most credit or debit cards, bank transfer or PayPal.
From 1st September 2021 we will be planting a tree for every watch we sell, working with the International Tree Foundation (Est 1922) to make this business positive on carbon. By buying anything pre owned you are effectively reusing what already exists, but this takes it further and makes us feel good.
