How to identify authentic Tudor watches

    At the beginning of the 20 century, German-born Hans Wilsdorf founded the renowned Rolex watch brand. However, because Rolex watches were expensive and out of reach for average families, Hans Wilsdorf decided to make them more accessible. Offering high-specification quality at an affordable price, the Tudor watch brand was born. So how can consumers spot a genuine Tudor watch when buying one? Let Watch House explain.

    Tudor never uses display casebacks; if you find a watch fitted with a glass back, it is definitely fake. Furthermore, Tudor movements do not use gold plating; their silver movement mainplates are decorated with exquisite perlage and fine finishing.

    Pay attention to the shape of the spring bars (telescopic pins) on Tudor watch straps; these are specially made, whereas counterfeit watches simply use ordinary styles.

    Tudor watches, especially models like 74033 and 76213, have slightly concave curved bracelet backs, including the gold-link sections, and the edges of the bracelet are also bevelled.

    The ends of the spring bars at the clasp position of the bracelet have a hole, a method identical to Rolex watches, whereas fake watches lack this. Additionally, the exposed ends of the pins are extremely regular and smooth, whereas counterfeits often neglect this detail, leaving behind grinding and machining marks.

    Pulling out the crown and using a magnifying glass reveals teeth inside the winding stem tube, and the lettering and motifs on the case back are engraved very deeply and clearly.

    The clasp of the bracelet features numerous letters and patterns; on genuine watches, these are deeply and clearly struck, whereas counterfeit watches typically press them so the letters run together into a blur without distinct raised or recessed definition.

    The dial requires the most careful inspection, including the characters on the dial, and whether the hour, minute and second hands are electroplated to a mirror finish. The lettering and minute tracks on the dial should be pitch-black and glossy, qualities that all counterfeit watches fail to reproduce correctly.

    Current Tudor watch case backs all feature a holographic iridescent anti-counterfeiting label with a purplish-red background colour.

    If the dial features diamond hour markers, without exception, fake Tudor watches do not use genuine diamonds. There is also the Tudor watch dial known as the "bark finish"; counterfeit watches do this the least convincingly because they cannot replicate the effect of those intersecting horizontal and vertical embossed textures.