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Tudor 7924 A.R.A: A few pictures.

I told you, a week ago, that I would soon see one hell of a Watch. My friend just go it.

A Tudor 7924 A.R.A ( Armada de la Republica Argentina ).

Pretty rare as I only saw 4 others, and this is the first time I can touch one in the real world.

I will include it in the article to come on the Argentinan Military Tudors, but in the meantime, here are the photos:





You will notice that the bevels are still present, the original insert, well, that the Watch has lived a tough life, and the beautiful dial.

One detail which amazed me, the hands. Normally, the second hand is lollipop and the minute and hour hands are gilt, but on the few ARA I saw, the hands are exactly the same, or worst, snowflake!

Like the other Tudor 7924 ARA, the serial number starts with 293, and we are in the same military number range: 61 1xx.

To be more precise, those I observed were between 61 188 and 61 196.

Which doesn't mean that there were not some with a military number before " 188 ", of course, or after 196.

Back to the dial, now: It aged in a superb way, and as often, the writings faded in a way that you must have some good eyes to see them.

Superb.

The things which makes me think that the hands aged with the dial is that they developped a similar patina than the indexes. Were they relumed ( the hands ) ?



The insert has suffered, but gives a lot of character to a Watch which doesn't lack strenght:





The Red Triangle is like a cherry on a delicious cake.

As it must be, the Watch is dated IV 58, and houses a Cal 390:



Thanks to the glentleman who allowed me to share this rare bird with you.

Best,

Nicolas

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