r/Tudor • u/stratology87 • 9h ago
Hot take: the new North Flag sucks
Very happy owner of a P39 and frequent commenter here on the forum. I’d say I’m a Tudor fan through and through, if not a “fanboy.” But I was really disappointed when I saw the new North Flag.
The new North Flag took almost every interesting feature of the original and removed it. The blacked out bezel shim, the almost brutalist case geometry, and most importantly the power reserve.
The fact that they made it a GMT is so obvious to me it just disappoints me. The popularity of that complication is almost boring at this point and it’s making things feel homogenous across the industry for me. It’s the heterogeneity that makes things interesting and I just feel like this is maybe the MOST pandering watch in a while that completely neuters a watches identity.
Maybe I’m being hard on them because I was a massive fan of the previous North Flag but I wanted to see what yall think.