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Tudor Heritage Chrono Quartz Black vs Grey Dial Comparo


jmb

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TeeJay was wondering about the "outer tracks" on the grey vs black dials so here a side-by-side to satisfy anybody's imagination which might be piqued...

It looks to me like this area is color-keyed to the color around the sub-dials...

And, before anybody asks, the grey one has been adopted by woof* and will be going to live with him soon...

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I as well like the grey one. And when comparing to the original (GEN), the 'brownish' overtones of the dial (I think) give it more of a warmer 'three dimensional feel' to it. Where as the GEN looks very two dimensional (in person). When I stopped in at the AD last week, the sales manager made me leave with this very expensive-looking, full-color, 1/2 inch thick book on the Tudor Watch and it's history. It showed at least 3 different earlier models of the Monte Carlo from the 70's.

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Thanks for the comparison shots, it's interesting to see the two side by side like that :) I would say that the light grey outer track of the black dial makes the overall dial look larger, but the black subsection looks smaller than the grey subsection on the other, it really is just a play on the two colors :) It's interesting that the grey dial still hasn't really caught your eye as a keeper, and I'm wondering if it might be because you do like your 34-36mm watches, and the black dial appears to have a smaller 'main dial area' :)

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T, I really don't know, just sort of a "gut" thing that when looking at both side-by-side the black dial "grabbed" me a bit harder! It was a really hard decision as I really like the grey one as well.

lgking: it would be really slick if you had a scanner... :whistling:

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I think a lot of the content of the AD 'book' I was given is online at the Tudor website, but here are a few shots. But again, this was an expensive little book to put together with very high quality thick matte finish paper...115 pages. Don't know why they scanned so crudely.

Interesting to note that they say that the Tudor Heritage has: "a new calibre for chronographs based on the Tudor 2892."

They also have an additional three (3) pages detailing ALL movements, whic look to be all ETA, starting with Tudor Calibre 2671, 2824, 2834, 2892, 7753, 7754.

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T, I really don't know, just sort of a "gut" thing that when looking at both side-by-side the black dial "grabbed" me a bit harder! It was a really hard decision as I really like the grey one as well.

lgking: it would be really slick if you had a scanner... :whistling:

I think it's like with everything, it's all a matter of personal taste, and also depends on how big you want your collection to be :) I'm only planning ( :bangin::whistling: ) on having three chronos in my collection: braceleted, leather strap, and NATO, (I'm even debating not building a Newman, so I can keep the 1655 on the leather cuff Orlando Bloom-style) so I probably wouldn't want to double up on a model simply to have one of each color variation*, so I can totally understand where you're coming from :)

* That said, I might wind up with two snowflakes... One in the black plastic case, another on the NATO strap military-style, simply because I've found out today that the plastic sub is just as uncomfortable in the heat as a metal bracelet, making NATO the way to go :bangin:

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  • 2 weeks later...

Even though I'm not a big "strap" fan I just ordered one of these as well. You got yours yet, woof?

noper....still waiting, I think it's coming from mars or somewhere far off..

:)

I'll post pics when it gets here

Oh....welcome to the dark "strap" side!

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After I ordered it said to contact their customer service if I didn't have it in 7 days but I think that is waaaay optimistic. I'm getting the strap as it looks a whole more correct than the bracelet. The clasp is so wrong it is really starting to bug me...

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I just received mine as I was leaving town for a week holiday at the beach (took the wife and daughter and it was great). Just got back into town and have been wearing it the whole time. So far I am kind of neutral in my response. I don't hate it, but I'm not knocked out by it either. All in all it is a decent, solid feeling piece. One thing that does bug me though is my orange stop-watch hand does not quite 'zero-in' at '12'. It will be just slightly almost a 2/10th's of a second fast...then I double click the reset button, and it goes back to just under 1/10 of a second (almost 12)...then the next time I look at it, (all by itself) it's back to 2/10's (off 12). So I just reset it and double click again. I'm doing this throughout the day, because it bothers me to see that little imperfection.

Keeps perfect time...has average lume...a hundred dollars...what's not to like, already...?

JMB, regarding the clasp...what was the clasp like on the original Monte Carlo...?

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After I ordered it said to contact their customer service if I didn't have it in 7 days but I think that is waaaay optimistic. I'm getting the strap as it looks a whole more correct than the bracelet. The clasp is so wrong it is really starting to bug me...

I love the clasp :lol: Sure, it would be nice if it was more accurate, or if the leaves were at least stamped 'Tudor', but given that the original THC clasp is of the same design as the DSSD clasp, I honestly believe that it's a welding failure waiting to happen :black_eye: This kind of clasp, inaccurate as it may be, simply cannot fail in the same manner as the welded clasps, so for me, while it's an inaccuracy of replication, it is (IMHO) a functional improvement :)

I just received mine as I was leaving town for a week holiday at the beach (took the wife and daughter and it was great). Just got back into town and have been wearing it the whole time. So far I am kind of neutral in my response. I don't hate it, but I'm not knocked out by it either. All in all it is a decent, solid feeling piece. One thing that does bug me though is my orange stop-watch hand does not quite 'zero-in' at '12'. It will be just slightly almost a 2/10th's of a second fast...then I double click the reset button, and it goes back to just under 1/10 of a second (almost 12)...then the next time I look at it, (all by itself) it's back to 2/10's (off 12). So I just reset it and double click again. I'm doing this throughout the day, because it bothers me to see that little imperfection.

Sadly just one of those things which can occur with any watch :pardon: But, as you say:

Keeps perfect time...has average lume...a hundred dollars...what's not to like, already...?

Exactly :tu: It's none too shabby, and an excellent daily beater :drinks:

JMB, regarding the clasp...what was the clasp like on the original Monte Carlo...?

I believe the original Monte Carlo had a Rolex-branded clasp, as on models like the 1655. The original Heritage clasp, is much more substantial, as can be seen in this photo :)

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