Tudor Advisor Guide: 7926, 10050 & Heritage 79620 Alarm Watch | Ultimate Watch
The Tudor Advisor is the only alarm watch Tudor has ever made, and that fact alone is why collectors keep asking us about it across the counter at 19 W 47th Street. Launched in 1957 as reference 7926, the Advisor put a mechanical alarm inside a Rolex Oyster case at a price a working man could reach, while Rolex itself never built an alarm watch. That is the whole appeal in one sentence: an Oyster-cased ravel with a hammer buzzing against the caseback, wearing a Tudor rose instead of a Rolex crown. Tudor revived the name in 2011 with the Heritage Advisor, reference 79620, a 42mm titanium-and-steel automatic with an in-house alarm module and a power reserve display just for the alarm. We buy both the vintage 7926/1537/10050 pieces and the modern 79620 regularly, and the two ends of this story trade very differently. Here is what a Tudor Advisor actually is, what to check before you buy or sell one, and where the money sits today.
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The Advisor's best story is what is missing: the Rolex coronet. Because the alarm forced Tudor to use a different crown, the Advisor became the only Oyster-cased Tudor to wear plain, unsigned crowns, so an Advisor showing up with a coronet crown is almost always married or wrong. Collectors also prize the earliest 7926 dials with the rose at 12 and the crosshair, executions that vanished by the time the shield replaced the rose on the 10050. On the vintage pieces the real scarcity is not the watch, it is a watchmaker who can still service an A. Schild or AS 1475 alarm hammer, which is why a genuinely loud, correct alarm adds more to value than most buyers expect. And there is the trivia-hall fact every Tudor collector eventually learns: if you want an alarm watch anywhere in the Rolex family tree, the Advisor is the only door in.
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