The other Day-Date

Day-Date. Since its release in 1956, the Rolex Day-Date has been the flagship of the Rolex line-up. The Rolex Day-Date has been manufactured only in gold or platinum cases, making the watch rather expensive. The is a lower cost "Rolex" Day-Date, this one from Tudor. Rolex actually manufactures the Tudor watches, however instead of using in-house movements, it use movements supplied by Swiss Ebauche.

Tudor Day-Date. The Tudor Day-Date is a fairly large watch, with a 41 mm case diameter. Interestingly, enough starting in 2008, the Rolex Day-Date now comes in 41 mm too. Both watches Display the date in a aperture at the 3 o'clock position and the day in another aperture at the 12 o'clock position. Both watches comes with self-winding movements that produces 28,800 vibrations per hour. Both watches are rated as water resistant to 100 meters. But this is were the similarity of the two watches end.

The Tudor Day-Date comes in stainless steel and in two-tone. No indication is made on Tudor's website about the type of gold used. Inside, the movement of the Tudor Day-Date is not certified as a chronometer. Chronometer refers to those watches are certified to be accurate to +4/-6 seconds per day for mechanical watches.

The Tudor Day-Date has five choices of dial colors: white, silver, gold, blue and black. You have a choice of stick or diamonds for the 12 our markers.

Tudor. Tudor is the second brand of Rolex. Both brands, Rolex and Tidor, were fathered by Hans Wilsdorf. Rolex was founded in 1905 while Tudor was established in in 1946. In the 1990's a decision was made to allow Tudor to develop its own brand identity and Tudor watches today are distinctively different in appearance from their Rolex counterparts.