Tudor Prince Date Chronograph

Tudor’s legacy as maker of high-quality tool watches was cemented long before the brand re-entered the American market in late 2013. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, the brand was calling upon its legacy products to inspire a fresh crop of tool watches to satisfy the modern collector. These models function as the bridge between the classic Tudor watches of the 20th century and the modern reissues of the 21st.

This Tudor Prince Date chronograph Ref. 79260 all of those boxes: Housed in a 40mm stainless steel Oyster case with screw-down chronograph pushers, a signed crown, a sapphire crystal, and a black tachymeter bezel insert, it features a black dial with an outer 1/5th-seconds track, a triple-register chronograph display in black and silver, a magnified date window at 3 o'clock, and a luminous 'baton' handset with an orange seconds hand. 

Powered by the automatic Valjoux 7750 chronograph movement and paired to a stainless steel multi-link bracelet with brushed and polished links and a signed clasp, this funky and approachable Tudor is the perfect entry point into the brand's collection. Wear it behind the wheel or walking down the busy city streets — just wear it well!

Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf created Tudor in 1926 for the everyman — for miners, construction workers and all sorts of tradesmen. For your everyday person Rolex was sometimes — and is now more so than ever — out of reach. It was meant for the explorer and the businessman, whereas Tudor was to be a different creature entirely.
In creating Tudor, Wilsdorf wanted to offer “a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that would attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous.”

Tudors were in many ways Rolexes in all but name, with the same waterproof Oyster cases and similar styling. However, in order to keep costs down, the brand used off-the-shelf Swiss movements rather than their own in-house calibres. What resulted were watches that were more affordable than Rolexes to the consumer, but still uniformly tough and reliable.

Today Tudor has certainly defeated any impression of being the redheaded stepchild of the Rolex family, and their current timepiece collection — as well as their vintage counterparts — are getting the recognition and respect they most rightfully deserve. From the colorful “Home Plate” chronograph to the complicated Advisor, these models often picked up where Rolex left off, daring to be more bold and playful in their design. And now that the brand has introduced in-house movements while still managing to keep pricing modest, the company is better poised than ever to win the hearts and minds of millions of new watch enthusiasts.

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