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 Posted: Wed Dec 23rd, 2009 05:29 am
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bigrustypig



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 I have always been fascinated by Tudor. With the Rolex DNA in it's "veins", I think it's a watch worth adding to any collection. Lately, I was sniffing out the Tudor Iconaut in white dial and polished steel at 43mm. Even at 43mm, it looked bigger than its dimensons because of Tudor's play on the bezel. It's a chrono with GMT, not a very common approach. However, something came up a few days ago.

The Tudor Hydro 1200 was released in Europe in the 2nd quarter of 2009 but only got to Asia this month. I happened to drop by one AD and was attracted to this big, brute of a watch. I spent an hour just sizing it up and comparing it side by side with the Iconaut. All told, I just fell in love with the Hydro 1200.

For sure it's on my radar to be shot down in early 2010. Here are my impressions as shown on the pictures:



Here's another



Check out how thick it is versus the Enzo



And another



Give me your thoughts. What do you know of Tudor? It's not common to see on many wrists and, in fact, in all my life I have only seen 1 guy with a Tudor. I don't know if there's anything wrong with it. Price points don't convey value? Boring designs? Distribution challenges? I don't seem to have the answers.

All I know is this Hydro 1200 seems to be a very well-made watch created and made under the shadow of its more illustrious big corporate and horological brother/sponsor.

Thanks for looking:dude: