1956 Tudor Oyster Royal Honeycomb Dial 34mm 7934

Here we have a 1956 Tudor Oyster Royal Honeycomb Dial 7934 that has a 34mm round Rolex Oyster stainless steel case with tapered drilled lugs, and a lug-to-lug length of 40mm and a case thickness of 9.5mm ensure a comfortable fit on your wrist. On the right side, the original Rolex signed screwed-down crown. The slim bezel holds a domed crystal above an attractive honeycomb “Explorer” dial, and an outer minute track with applied gold-toned dart hour markers and gold-toned Arabic numerals at 12, 3, 6, and 9. Gold-toned lance hands filled with lume and a fine tapered sweeping centre seconds hand complete this vintage dial. Text on the dial is precisely printed: “Tudor Oyster Royal” and “Shock Resisting”. On the reverse, a screw-down coin-edge case back, inside a manually wound Tudor Cal. 1156, 17 jewels, 18,000 beats per hour. The watch is paired with a well-suited 19mm aftermarket leather strap and pin buckle.

This watch is sold as Watch Only and, therefore, comes without its original Tudor box or paperwork. It is paired with a well-suited 19mm aftermarket leather strap and pin buckle. The watch is from Circa 1956 and is sold in worn vintage condition, but overall, it is in very fair condition for its age, with even patina on the dial and hands, as you can see from the photographs, all original down to the crown and stem which shows sign of age but is perfectly useable. The watch comes with our 12-Months Non-Waterproof Warranty.

I have been fortunate to have sold multiple Tudor Oyster Royals, but this reference 7934 with its original honeycomb dial is by far my favourite yet. Sitting beautifully on the wrist at 34mm and powered by a thin manually wound Tudor Cal. 1156, this will work on any size wrist and look at home. The dial is without question the star of this show for this watch, it begs to be admired and plays with the light revealing further details, this is what vintage is all about. Do not hesitate to add this gem to your collection today!

Reference : 7934
Movement : Manually Wound Tudor Cal. 1156
Age : Circa. 1956
Year : 1956
Case Size : 34mm
Case Thickness : 9.5mm
Lug to Lug : 40mm
Lugs : 19mm
Condition : Pre-Owned
Box and Papers : None
Case Material : Stainless Steel
Warranty : 12-Months NON-Waterproof Warranty
The wrist model's wrist size is 7inch

The Tudor trademark was first registered in 1926 by the Swiss watchmaking company “Veuve de Philippe Hüther” on behalf of Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of Rolex watches. Wilsdorf took it over himself in 1936. Just after the Second World War, Hans Wilsdorf, Founder of Rolex, knew that the time had come to expand and give the Tudor brand a proper identity of its own. The Tudor Rose started to appear on their dials from this time. Thus, on 6 March 1946, he created the “Montres TUDOR S.A.” company, specialising in models for both men and women. Rolex guarantees technical, aesthetic, and functional characteristics, as well as distribution and after-sales service. In 1948, we saw the first Tudor-specific advertisement. A few years later, they introduced the TUDOR Oyster Prince in 1952. Hans Wilsdorf allowed Tudor to use their waterproof Oyster case and the original self-winding Perpetual ’rotor’ movement. This was an exclusive arrangement that benefitted both brands. Development soon commenced with the introduction of the TUDOR Oyster Prince Submariner, reference 7922, in 1954. This watch was quickly adopted by the French Navy in 1956. Building on its reputation of robustness in 1961, the Rose was replaced by the shield. Later, in 1969, we saw the design changes in Ref. 7016 where, for the first time, square indexes and angular hands nicknamed “Snowflake” allowed for a greater amount of lume to be applied, and the divers of the French Navy appreciated this. Today, these innovations can be seen in the Black Bay and Pelagos collections. In 1971, Tudor introduced the Oysterdate chronographs nicknamed “Monte-Carlo” due to their resembling a roulette wheel. Celebrating their 50th anniversary in 1996. That same year, Tudor decided to shed Rolex-signed components such as the cases, crowns, and bracelets in favour of Tudor-branded ones. Today, Tudor uses their in-house movements, which were developed initially in 2015 in collaboration with Breitling.