This afternoon, despite the dark sky and rainy weather, there is sunshine in me as I have manage to make a deal to trade my Rolex 1601 special ghost dial for a Tudor 7934 with special acrylic floral design center dial. It uses the caliber 1156 manual wind movement, 17 jewels.
I am always fascinated with watch with special dial and especially for watches made for the Middle East or the Indian markets. I was told that during the 1950s, these watches were only customized for the the Middle East market or Indian markets, and it is estimated that there will be no more than 100 watches in the world.
My fellow collector friend Gary has a complete collection of these. There are a few variations. First is the size. There is one at 31 mm size (Reference 7803) and another at 34 mm (Reference 7934). Moreover, besides red, there are blue and green colours as well honeycomb dial versus flat dial. (Please see photos of Gary's collection below).
Besides these, there is also another versions made for the Middle East with the map and special indexes as below. I must have kept the Tudor watch since the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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