New Tudor catalogue!

[Alcan]

I was in my AD this morning picking up a Longines they'd sent out for repair, and they told me the new Tudor catalogue had landed yesterday. No surprise what's on the front cover. Its a beaut, 116 pages with the first 20 or so covering the history of the brand and such.

I was only able to get one today, but they've promised me a dozen or so next week. When I get them, I'll do another giveaway. In the meantime, here are a few quick 'n dirty scans. Wait till Dan Pierce gets a look at the 55003 on black leather!

[Pep04]

So Tudor WILL be sold in the US? I heard only Texas had a store.

[Alcan]

Originally Posted by Pep04

So Tudor WILL be sold in the US? I heard only Texas had a store.

Not sure Pep, I'm from Canada. That's why I send the Tudor catalogues to the Stateside folks.

[Saxon007]

Originally Posted by Pep04

So Tudor WILL be sold in the US? I heard only Texas had a store.

Where in Texas?

[Dr. Robert]

Omega still sells Tissot in the USA, too bad Rolex doesn't sell Tudor in the USA.

[Alcan]

They're coming guys, just don't know when. Here's a copy of a thread I did a while ago re Tudor and the U.S. Of note is the introduction date 1926, which I've read before and is consistent with the catalogue, not 1946 as is often quoted:

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Bruno Meier, Tudor, and eventual U.S. availability

.....an interview given by Bruno Meier (the new head of Rolex) to a Swiss newspaper, earlier this year in which he talks briefly about Tudor, but in so doing tells more about the brand, including production numbers:

I see that you are doing more promotion this year, particularly with your second brand ‘Tudor’. Why are they not more in the picture?

We have quite a large market share with Tudor in Hong Kong & China, even though the brand exists since 1926, we had never really put 100% effort behind it to promote the brand in Europe & the USA.

Now, with production running close to 200,000 watches, we are ready to provide the necessary funds to launch Tudor correctly in Europe and then later in the US. Our first move in this direction was to enter into a partnership with Porsche Motorsport.

Tudor continues to use movements from the Swatch Group’s ETA subsidiary?

This is currently true. We will never build a factory only for Tudor. We have very good relations with ETA.

I heard that you once made a request to build ETA movements for Tudor under a license from Swatch?

We once made a request, that's true. But after some thought, we put the project back into the drawer.


This is a cleaned up Google translation from the original interview.

[sea-dweller]

Thanks for sharing!

[TRW]

That Watch at the Bottom(55003)is Beautiful.Thx AL

[Watch Professor]

Beautiful watches. Hope they will be sold in the US.

[Cannop]

I can't think of a sensible reason why Tudors shouldn't be sold in the US?!?

[Frogman4me]

It would be nice to see an AD have some in stock to try on. Go tudor!

[Tunacan26]

Dan should have HIS photo in that booklet!

[STEELINOX]

I like the 5503, lots of lines to it
Thanks Al...

Randy

[JimSnyder]

You are a good man Al. Our ADs always say they don't have catalogues

[Akira]

Thanks for sharing, mate!