Every Watch Tells a Story: The little aesthetic touches that made me buy a Tudor Pelagos LHD

Matt Pickering

Left-handers face daily reminders that they are living in a right-handed world. Using a fountain pen is likely to result in inky smudges, while scissors and can openers pose real challenges to their personal dexterity. So it’s nice when watch brands recognise these logistical challenges.

Tudor is one such brand with the Pelagos LHD. Featuring a 42mm titanium case, 500m of water resistance and Tudor’s own in-house caliber MT5612-LHD, the watch also has some great history behind it. From 1970, Tudor produced their ref. 9401 Submariner with a crown on the left side of the case at the request of the French Navy. This was to prevent the crown digging into the back of divers’ wrists, and for allowing other diving instruments to be worn on their left wrists instead of a watch.

But as Vinnie explains in this video it was the little aesthetic touches for him that sealed the deal here. From the ‘Pelagos’ text in red to the date window in the roulette style, meaning the numbers alternate between black and red.

But the real clincher was the colour of the hands, hour markers and bezel details that are rendered in a beige that’s the soft colour of a milky coffee. It’s a relatively subtle change to the luminous material (which still glows a crisp blue), but makes an amazing difference  to the watch bringing some warmth to the super-technical Pelagos, adding a little heart to its otherwise clinical design.

Every Watch Tells A Story is a series of videos that asks real, non-celebrity, non-influencer, watch lovers in the T+T community simply to tell the story of their watch. The answers are always relatable. And in this case, there are some clear and simple steps that led Vinnie to his Tudor LHD. The tipping point though, was reading a review on Time+Tide. Go us!