Watch Of The Week: I Took A Professional Leap Of Faith – And Ended Up Celebrating With A Tudor North Flag
Around the same time I was preparing to relocate to take this new opportunity, Tudor announced a similarly significant transition, by way of the brand’s North Flag watch. Announced at Baselworld 2015, this new watch held Tudor’s first proprietary “in-house” movement: the COSC-certified caliber MT5621.
Visible through an exhibition caseback, the movement and its winding rotor were largely undecorated. The dial, on the other hand, offered a bold colorway of black offset by white applied indices and a bright yellow seconds hand. Even more unprecedented was the power reserve indicator at nine o’clock, consisting of a rotating disk with a white arrowhead pointer – I’ve always thought it gives Ressence vibes. The amount of power in the barrel is denoted by a segmented and curved yellow cone painted on the dial. And then, at three o’clock, there’s a date indication. The hour hand ends in an arrow, as was common in the antecedent Tudor Ranger, while the minute hand is obelisk in shape.