What's the Deal with Tudor?
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Tudor is to Rolex as Buick is to Cadillac.
In the old days, the brands shared many of the same exterior components - cases and the like - and, rarely, movements. However, the vast majority of Tudors use ETA movements, not Rolex movements.
Lastly, do not buy a watch with a dial that says "Rolex Tudor" or a Tudor that has been redailed to say "Rolex."
I could go on, but I hope this answers your question
In the old days, the brands shared many of the same exterior components - cases and the like - and, rarely, movements. However, the vast majority of Tudors use ETA movements, not Rolex movements.
Lastly, do not buy a watch with a dial that says "Rolex Tudor" or a Tudor that has been redailed to say "Rolex."
I could go on, but I hope this answers your question
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Rolex is the company name. They have two lines of watches one is called Rolex the other Tudor.
Now its getting complicted.....
If you see a watch with Tudor and Rolex on the dial, that would be fake/redial. This was never produced.
Very old Tudor watches had a 'Rose' logo, the Tudor rose. They changed that logo to a shield.
Older Tudor watches had the Rolex logo on the crown and Rolex on the back, the dial had only the Tudor logo.
Newer Tudor watches do not have any Rolex logos anymore.
Rolex watches had never any Tudor logos on them.
The watches have the same warrenty, can be serviced at the same Service Center, are produced at the same factory.
Rolex watches have a Rolex movement. Tudor watches have a mod. ETA movement. That might change in the future and they will have Rolex movements too. But only Rolex knows.
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Now its getting complicted.....
If you see a watch with Tudor and Rolex on the dial, that would be fake/redial. This was never produced.
Very old Tudor watches had a 'Rose' logo, the Tudor rose. They changed that logo to a shield.
Older Tudor watches had the Rolex logo on the crown and Rolex on the back, the dial had only the Tudor logo.
Newer Tudor watches do not have any Rolex logos anymore.
Rolex watches had never any Tudor logos on them.
The watches have the same warrenty, can be serviced at the same Service Center, are produced at the same factory.
Rolex watches have a Rolex movement. Tudor watches have a mod. ETA movement. That might change in the future and they will have Rolex movements too. But only Rolex knows.
Frank
I was to late
Thanks guys for all the info. I like learning all about watches and things like this are particularly interesting!
Ok, now can someone tell me what ETA movement is? Is that just the standard movement used in most watches? Who makes it? ETA is a company or a series of companies?
Thank for the additional info.
Ok, now can someone tell me what ETA movement is? Is that just the standard movement used in most watches? Who makes it? ETA is a company or a series of companies?
Thank for the additional info.
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ETA is a company that makes movements but no watches. It belongs to the Swatch group. It sells movements to most watch companies. Some companies like Rolex (not Tudor), Patek use only thier own movements. ETA will most likely stop selling movements in 2010. As per an agreement they do not have to sell movements after 2010.
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I dont know. I think that ETA will just produce movements for the brands in the swatch group and the other watch maker have to look for a diff. movement maker. That will make the ETA movements more exclusiv.
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ETA will stop selling movements in their component form (where the party buying it can tweak & build themselves). They will still sell complete movements to companies outside Swatch, it'll just mean maybe a bit more cost to do those mods as they may have to disassemble first.
Also, there are several other movement manufactures that have been getting bigger & bigger shares of the market recently. I expect they'll pick up a lot of the slack from ETA.
IMO the 2010 ETA "shut-down" will be akin to the Y2K stuff.... A lot of hype building up to it & then we'll hardly know when it passes.... :wink:
Also, there are several other movement manufactures that have been getting bigger & bigger shares of the market recently. I expect they'll pick up a lot of the slack from ETA.
IMO the 2010 ETA "shut-down" will be akin to the Y2K stuff.... A lot of hype building up to it & then we'll hardly know when it passes.... :wink:
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