Tudor. A fine and attractive stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with date and bracelet
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Tudor. A fine and attractive stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with date and bracelet

SIGNED TUDOR, OYSTER DATE, MONTECARLO MODEL, REF. 7169/0, CASE NO. 844'441, CIRCA 1976

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Tudor. A fine and attractive stainless steel chronograph wristwatch with date and bracelet
Signed Tudor, Oyster Date, Montecarlo model, ref. 7169/0, case no. 844'441, circa 1976
Cal. 234 mechanical movement, 17 jewels, grey matte dial, luminous baton numerals, luminous hands, red central hand for chronographic seconds, outer fifth of a second divisions on blue track, outer orange Arabic five minutes divisions on blue track, two sunken blue subsidiary dials with multicolor chapter rings for constant seconds and 45 minutes register, magnified window for date, tonneau-shaped water-resistant-type case, bidirectional revolving blue bezel calibrated for 12 hours, screw back engraved "Original Oyster Case by Rolex Geneva", screw down Rolex crown, two screw down chronograph buttons in the band, stainless steel Rolex Oyster bracelet, deployant clasp, case, dial and movement signed
40 mm. diam.; overall length approx. 200 mm.

Specialist note

Launched in 1974, reference 7169/0 is the incarnation of the prototype 7033/0 now with rotating bezel with a 12-hour graduation to tell the time in a second time zone.

The model existed in two colour combinations, blue and grey dial with blue bezel as the present watch or black and grey dial and black bezel. The model is illustrated and described in Alberto Isnardi's Tudor Anthology, pp. 151-155.