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3 May 2020, 02:03 PM | #1 |
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Review: Pelagos vs. Submariner
I put the Tudor Pelagos up against the mighty Submariner in my latest article. Check it out and your opinions are welcome in the comments:
https://timeandtidewatches.com/rolex...tudor-pelagos/ Cheers, Bruce Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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The first picture on your review - first glance - talk about twins. On closer examination, my originally view point remains, I think the Rolex looks slightly more "luxury".
At the price points for both watches, however, there's only one that you are paying a premium for the brand name. |
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Nice review and photos
Pelagos is the no-brainer for me, if you are not hung up on brand and resale. Better size (for me), more functionality (clasp, lume) and superior power reserve, water-resistance.
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Nice review Bruce I hate to go all Canadian on you, but IMHO it’s a tie.
The Submariner is a bit more understated and subtle to me, in that it looks the part whether dressed up or down. The Tudor is hands down a tool watch. Good either way you choose to look at them. I just wish they both would lose a couple lines of text on the dial |
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Very nice review, I share some similar sentiments in my comparisons of my Tudor Black Bay to my Submariner.
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Review: Pelagos vs. Submariner
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Fantastic review and beautiful pictures Bruce. As a tool watch, I love Tudor for its dial visibility / clarity and lume. What I Don’t like is the poem written on the dial at 6’ :-) too much text. The Sub is more than just a tool, it’s a watch that can do it all, from Tuxedo to a diving suit and everything in between. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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To each his own..
I find the Pelagos unnecessarily big and bold. The bracelet reminds me of a Hamilton I had in the past. Plus, those five lines of text... they could get rid of that ´Self Winding´ stuff and stick with something like ´Officially Certified Chronometer’.. I do like the hands and indexes though.. legibility is top notch.
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You're spot on about questioning the need for Rotor Self-Winding. Removing that would have been better, but not a deal breaker. dP
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And that there is what makes this such a great hobby
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Excellent comparative review! As much as I respect the Submariner, it was the Pelagos grabbed me when I first saw it - I eventually got one and couldn't be happier! I don't have the desire to press a tool watch into service as a dress watch (I don't take Bond as a style inspiration), so the unapologetic nature of the Tudor is right up my street!
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Personally feel that the Pelagos is the best value diver around.
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I was actually looking at the Black Bay M79230B-0008, and the Pelagos before my employer shuttered the doors a couple of weeks ago.
Hopefully I’m able to revisit both models again. |
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I have a pelagos LHD, and the crown-left makes it very wearable on left wrist despite the somewhat chunky case. "Aged" lume isn't really very noticeable.
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Great review, I have owned both and give the edge to the Sub for versatility
Also I agree with Brian they need to scale back some of that (oak tree) dial text |
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Here is my own older personal review of the Tudor Pelagos for additional information:
Tudor Pelagos Engineering Notes Tudor looked at the Rolex Submariner and said "How can we update this thing and make a bunch-o-money?" And they did . . . by creating the Pelagos: Fully lumed ceramic bezel insert (Rolex is getting behind the times here, with a few other manufacturers already having implemented lumed bezels!) Larger/wider indices and hands = easier to read The lume is GREAT! (Read that one more time) Helium gas escape valve – great if someone ties your feet to bricks and tosses you overboard (say what ???) Keeps time (MT5612 in-house movement) as good as any of my Rolex. My Pelagos = minus 0.2 sec/day. That is about minus 6.2 sec/month or minus 1 minute 14 seconds per year! Movement, head and bracelet are certainly as durable and well-made as a Rolex 70 hour power reserve (Rolex is slowly catching up here with newer production) Deeper dive capability = 1640 feet versus 1000 feet for a Submariner (not that we'd ever be diving that deep, unless we were retrieving “Bricks-on-Feet Guy”) Dial overall slightly larger (1/8” = 3.2mm) than a Sub, so that is nice too 42mm size – but the lugs are shaped/sized such that it can nicely fit small flattish arm bones such as 6.5” to 6.75” Titanium – sans a few parts of the bracelet My Pelagos LHD is also not getting as much abrasion wear as the SS Rolex, and I do not baby my watches at all LHD version (only) has slightly "aged" ivory lume, a very nice, subtle aspect The engineering of the auto-adjustable bracelet is VERY well done and user-friendly Comes with extra dive straps, color-dependent on watch dial color, blue or black No distracting/annoying(?) Cyclops date magnifier No Antireflective coating to get badly worn as is typical with AR crystals Roulette date wheel - even days are in red, odd in black (LHD model only) No shiny polished case and bezel to act as a "shiny fishing lure for sharks." LOL The Pelagos is exactly one-half the cost of a Submariner for this vastly improved but otherwise “similar” dive watch item The Pelagos has SOoo surpassed the Rolex Submariner in every way imaginable Pelagos is pronounced as: pell-uh-goes (Yeh; I was calling it pell-AHG-ose) NOTE: Pelagos is Greek for “sea” Service interval should be ~10 years as is modern Rolex, but not being there yet I have no idea of cost. Not on my worry list In my opinion the Tudor Pelagos is as well-made, durable and accurate as any Rolex The Pelagos immediately became my daily wearer - knocking out my favorite Rolex I could go on, but by now you understand my enthusiasm for the Tudor Pelagos
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