This ladies Tudor Royal is in a Rolex case and bracelet, both hall marked for 9k gold, and is very elegant.

HOW DO WE DATE THIS WATCH?

From the Chester hall mark on the inside of the case back we can accurately date this ladies Tudor watch to being assayed in late 1954 or early 1955.

CONDITION

For those that don’t know, Rolex launched Tudor watches as a cheaper alternative to their main watches.  Often, like in this example, the cases were the same as the Rolex sister watches, but Tudor watches didn’t use the in house Rolex movements in order to keep the cost down.

But Tudor didn’t pick the cheapest movements either – they are usually the better specification movement from ETA, AS etc.  The manual wind movement in this watch looks to be an AS one, but the number is not visible.  Everything is working correctly with it though.  The case is not damaged, and the long bracelet has a ladder clasp to allow for four different easy adjustments without the need to remove any links (local jewellers could do this easily, and we would suggest removing the link nearest six on the dial, as it appears different to the rest.).  On the back of the clasp is the word ROLEX, and the bracelet makers mark B&S for Britton and Sons – it was not unusual for Rolex, Omega and others to have the gold cases and/or bracelets made by a select number of UK goldsmiths, as the import duty on complete gold watches was very high.  The case is stamped RWC (Rolex Watch Company), so that was made in Switzerland.  Included is the mock tortoiseshell H.Samuel box the watch arrived to us in, and is likely to be the box the watch originally came in (although we could never prove that).

This watch will be supplied with a period H.Samuels presentation box, papers and our Certificate of Authenticity.

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​SIZE

Width with crown  21.1 mm

Width without crown  19.7 mm

Lug to lug length  27.2 mm

Case Thickness  7.3 mm

Bracelet will fit a maximum wrist size of 195 mm.

All sizes are approximate.

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.

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