The Tudor Oyster Submariner #7923, one of the holy grails in wrist watches can be bought at HQ Milton. This watch is unique in this family because it is the only manually wound dive watch that either Rolex or Tudor ever made. And what’s more, this watch is untouched and in original condition.

The Tudor Brand

Montres Tudor SA has designed, manufactured and marketed Tudor watches since 6 March 1946. Rolex founder Hans Wildorf conceived of the Tudor Watch Company to create a product for authorized Rolex dealers to sell that offered the reliability and dependability of a Rolex, but at a lower price.

The roots of the brand were here: quality, functionality, reliability, and for a more accessible price than the mother brand Rolex. The number of Rolex watches was limited by the rate that they could product in-house Rolex movements, thus Tudor watches were originally equipped with off-the-shelf movements while using similar quality cases and bracelets. (source: wikipedia)

Tudor Submariner

While not being proper dress watches, the first models of Tudor were not real tools or watches with a strong sports vocations either, like it is the case now for most of the collection. This concept really started in 1954, when Tudor launched their version of the Submariner, the iconic dive watch created in 1953 by Rolex.

From 1954 to 1999, there would always be a Tudor Oyster Prince Submariner in the collection, demonstrating the brand’s vision of the accessible and performing dive watch.

Tudor Submariner 7923

The 7923 reference is the only Rolex or Tudor submariner ever produced that’s manually wound, using a modified ETA movement paired with rare pencil hands, making this one even more desirable than its vintage looks suggest.

Ultimately, what we have here is one of the rarest watches ever made by Tudor or Rolex, in true preservation class winning quality. HQ Milton has changed the crystal on the watch to give a clearer view of the perfect dial, but the original crystal will be included to keep the watch just as it was discovered.

Rolex thought this combination was so unique it submitted a modern 1 of 1 edition Tudor Black Bay One reference 7923/001 for Phillips Watch Department during the 2015 Watch Only Auction, which sold for 375,000 CHF (Swiss franc).

Price

This very watch was sold on Ebay for $99,999. A seldom seen eBay seller protection plan, that requires bidders to telephone eBay’s fraud protection unit if they want to bid into six figures, prevented it from selling for more. But now it can sell for a lot more

HQ Milton has listed the watch as “Price on Application” – but that asking price is $350,000. Is this an enormous price for any Tudor Sub? Absolutely.

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