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Tudor · Submariner
Known in the trade as the Snowflake.
The reference that introduced the hands. Tudor squared off the hour hand into an angular block — the snowflake — and squared the hour markers to match, which sounds like styling and was not: a broader hand carries more luminous material, and a shape that differs sharply from the minute hand is faster to read wrong-way-up in dark water. Tudor was supplying the French Marine Nationale at the time, and the design reflects what a navy asks for.
The 7016 was produced from 1969 to 1976.
The Tudor 7016 runs the ETA 2483 / 2784, an automatic movement.
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