Tudor Tiger Prince Date – Ref 79280 – Valjoux 7750 – Late 1990’s

Tudor Tiger Prince Date – Ref 79280 – Valjoux 7750 – Late 1990’s

Tudor Tiger Prince Date with reference 79280 with round white dial and silver baton for each hour. On it is engraved, Tiger – Prince Date – Automatic – Chrono Time. At 3 o’clock comes the window for the date and three black sub dials, 6 o’clock for the hours, 9 o’clock for the seconds and 12 o’clock for the minutes. It is a “T Swiss Made T” model. The watch comes with black and white hands with stick style. The watch has a tachymeter steel bezel graduated up to 500. The crown has the Tudor logo. Pushers and crown are screwed. It is a stainless-steel screwed back case with engraved outside “Tudor Prince Geneva”. It is an automatic movement with caliber Valjoux 7750 and 25 jewels. The watch comes with a green alligator strap. Width between lugs is 20mm.

History

The Tudor name was registered in 1906 by a Swiss watchmaker named Isaac Blumenthal in memory of the famous Royal English family who reign from 1495 to 1603. In 1940, Mr. Wilsdorf founder and owner of Rolex trade the name “The Tudor”. Since, the Rolex of the street guy developed beautiful watches such as the “Hydronaut” or la “Princess Date Chronograph” with the particularity to have ETA movement, one of the ever made.

Technical details

Automatic movement with caliber Valjoux 7750 with 25 jewels, 28,800 A/h.

Measurements

Diameter excluding winding crown: 40mm


Length including lugs: 48mm