TUDOR

The watch brand was the official Timing Partner of the Porsche Motorsport from 2009 to 2010. Both companies interestingly have shields for their logos and have celebrated this and other similarities in this Gran Turismo sporting partnership.

Today, TUDOR continues to be a leader in performance watches offering moderately priced alternatives to the more expensive and elitist Rolex watch brand.

Around 1936, the company added a decorative double-rose (or rose within a rose) representing the “TUDOR Rose” emblem in a shield as additional references to the TUDOR royal family. The shield was eventually dropped with the Tudor Rose logo emphasizing the company’s focus on elegance and style.

Undergoing another metamorphosis in the late 60’s, the company decided that it had achieved mastery of its classic designs and decided to give more focus on reliability and durability. To symbolize this transition, Tudor company once again changed its logo to the current three-pronged shield.

The Evolution of Tudor Watch Brand Logo

Taking its name from the prolific and prominent Tudor Anglical dynasty, the TUDOR watch brand’s first models in the 1920s bore the simple TUDOR logo. Some watches would also feature Rolex to establish TUDOR’s connection to its more well-known brother company since Rolex had originally overseen the technical and aesthetic aspects of TUDOR until it matured enough to develop its watches autonomously.

For many years, fans of Rolex watches have been exactly just that, fans of the quality and superiority of the watch brand were rarely owners of Rolex watches themselves, essentially status symbols, given the exclusivity and high-price point of the watch brand’s models.

All these changed in the mid 20th-century, when Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf announced the birth of the TUDOR watch brand in 1946. The watch brand’s founder had just taken a philanthropic turn a few years back by establishing a fund in his name and entrusting his Rolex shares to this charitable foundation. Hans Wilsdorf introduced TUDOR watch brand to the watch-making world with the goal of creating watches at a more modest price compared to Rolex but attaining at the same time the very same standards of dependability and reliability for which Rolex is famous.

Tissot Watches

The Visodate Automatic remake now comes in four variations with two classes of dial-strap combo mixed with two kinds of casing, in natural metal-colored stainless steel and a contemporary yellow gold- colored stainless steel with PVD coating.

The dial-strap combos consist of silver colored dials paired with brown leather straps with tone-on-tone stitching and black dials that are paired with black leather straps also with tone-on-tone stitching. All straps are made in leather with a trendy crocodile style like pattern and completed with a stainless steel butterfly clasp made of polished stainless steel.

In classic monotone style, the hands, hour and minute indices are made of the same stainless steel as the casing, in plain stainless steel or in gold-colored gilt PVD coating, to match models with the same coating. Like the vintage model, the watch features simple hour, minutes and seconds display with the date and day wheels prominently at the three o’clock position. The dial is covered with a scratch resistant domed clear sapphire crystal.

The sleek vintage look and the classic simple designs all make for an elegant men’s watch that is ideal for use either during business or leisure.

Retail price for the Tissot Heritage Visodate Automatic is of around 450 EUR.

Famed NBA basketball player Tony Parker, currently of the San Antonio Spurs, is the current Ambassador for the Tissot watch brand’s Heritage collection.

In July 2010, Tissot watch brand expands its Heritage collection by announcing the release of the Heritage Visodate Automatic at the Baselworld fair. The Visodate Automatic is a contemporary remake of the original centenary model released fifty-seven years ago and features the, classic vintage, Tissot artistic name logo with expanded top bar for the letter “T”, as well as the signature Visodate day and date indicator at the 3 o’clock position in black text on white background.

In July 2010, Tissot watch brand expands its Heritage collection by announcing the release of the Heritage Visodate Automatic at the Baselworld fair. The Visodate Automatic is a contemporary remake of the original centenary model released fifty-seven years ago and features the, classic vintage, Tissot artistic name logo with expanded top bar for the letter “T”, as well as the signature Visodate day and date indicator at the 3 o’clock position in black text on white background.