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As a newbie to this forum, I think that I may have an additional variant to add, the Tudor Oyster, ladies 23mm which I believe dates to 1942. Although in gold this uses the same 3640 case. I was so surprised to see this variation that I bought it, but I wasn’t sure originally whether it was a fake. I cannot find another example of a Tudor of this period with the same type face or without the rose/shield emblem. I would be grateful if anyone knows of another.
It seems that Rolex/Wilsdorf used the war as a kind of scattergun approach to brands and branding, putting so many different varieties of what is ostensibly the same watch into the market, presumably to see what worked and what didn’t. It would be interesting to understand the reasoning behind this if anyone knows?
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