A beautiful 9K gold fancy bezel Tudor, with gold filled bracelet. This watch features an incredibly well preserved telephone dial, seriphed Breguet like numerals, patterned gilded center circle, stamped minute track, sword hands, the makers name Tudor with extended 'T'. The double signed dial also bears the jewellers name and city 'Flints Hobart'. Flints was a very well known upmarket jeweller in Hobart, which, when they closed, if I remember correctly, they were the longest running jewellery store in Australia. The watch comes with its original bakelite box, also signed Flints.

This watch is from my personal collection, I had it serviced in Hobart around mid 2020, and a new crystal fitted, but I can't guarantee it absolutely since it is technically out of warranty. I have just lightly wound it every few months and it always was running well.

The engraving free caseback is stamped Hantily, an early case maker in Australia, and this one closes crisply. Their cases have held up well over the years. This stamping also helps date the watch as Hantily changed to 'Handley' stamping in 1934. The bracelet is a little later and is marked Handley. The lack of the Tudor rose on the dial also dates the watch to pre-1936. I believe this watch dates to 1932 or 1933, but feel free to make your own estimate. It would be one of the very first Tudors imported to Australia.

You have Australian provenance on the dial of the watch, the box and the bracelet. The movement is marked 'Tudor' and has 15 jewels. It is decorated with côtes de Genève, anglage and gilt embossed lettering. The watch is a little over 21mm in diameter, not including the crown. The box has a little damage to the hinge on one end, but still hinges and snaps shut crisply.

This is a superb specimen quality double signed watch worthy of even the best historic timepiece collection.

Update: I ran a couple of accuracy tests, facing dial up the watch was accurate to within 1 minute and ran for 29 h. On its side, crown up, it gained 4 minutes over 24 hours, and ran for 35 hours. It's normal for orientation to affect accuracy a little, overall this shows very decent performance for a 1930s watch. That said, I can't absolutely guarantee performance, so please just take this as a guide.

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