The Case for Some Vintage & Modern Tudor Watches - Part 2
This article picks up from where the previous part of the article on collectible Tudor watches picked up. Tudor Snowflake - The snowflake hands are pretty much a brand identity of the modern Tudor watch. What started off in the back bay watch and the Tudor pelages has now taken over most sport watches in the brand. However the history of these hands goes back to 1969 when the hands first appeared on the submariner reference 7016 and 7021. These watch were widely adopted by the French navy the "Marine Nationale". The difference really was in the hour hand which replace the traditional "mercedes" hands with a seven sided wide tipped frame that had sufficient real estate to hold loom to aid with visibility. These watches typically carried an ETA movement and the designs of these hands continued to appear in watches through 1975 (ref. 9104 and 9411) and were later seen in some watches unto the 1980s. Certain watches specially those used by the french navy alon
