Never Left Behind : Exploring The TUDOR Pelagos LHD

It can be tough to be left-handed in a right-handed world. Today is International Left-Handers Day, which celebrates those with a dominant left hand. For centuries, children with a propensity to use their left hand were discouraged or even reprimanded until they developed a habit of using their right. While it is no longer a taboo to be left-handed, lefties still have to struggle with items that are made for a dominant right hand. Whether it’s learning to play guitar upside-down like Jimi Hendrix or creating an unexpectedly centered strike zone like Babe Ruth, left-handed folks have been finding ways to be the best in their field with the tools they have at hand. Thankfully, since more and more people have been embracing their left-handedness, more products have been designed that make having a dominant left hand easier. Left-handed scissors, baseball gloves, computer mouses, and instruments have all been engineered to better serve the lives of lefties. TUDOR is no exception when it comes to left-handed accessibility. The TUDOR Pelagos LHD is the perfect watch for the discerning left-handed diver.

Dive into Comfort

Named LHD for Left Hand Drive, the new Pelagos for left-handed divers features a winding stem positioned to the left of the case, so that the watch can be worn on the right wrist. When in the depths of the ocean, every second, every meter, and every movement counts. Left-handed divers with standard watches on the right wrist will have to awkwardly fiddle with a  winding mechanism while fighting waves, depth, and pressure. Instead, created with left-handed divers in mind, the Pelagos LHD makes the dive watch work for the diver, not the other way around. This Pelagos LHD boasts a 42-mm titanium and steel case with a satin finish and a sleek black dial.

For the History Books

In a nod to its past, the new TUDOR Pelagos evokes the brand’s history of dive watches designed specifically for left-handed professional divers. Before left-handed watches were invented, it was common for divers to simply wear and learn to read a dive watch upside down, as seen in the photo above. Reading the watch face like this tended to be easier than making adjustments to the watch with the wrong hand. During the 1970s, the French Navy commissioned bespoke models for its left-handed divers and changed the diving game for all lefties around the world. Now, all professional and military diving outfits utilize some iteration of the original left-handed diving watch that was made for the French Navy so many years ago.

Let’s Get Technical

While the outside casing of the TUDOR Pelagos LHD is sleek and elegant with the trademark beige luminescence and recognizable design, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. The Pelagos LHD is powered with a variant of the TUDOR Manufacture Calibre MT5612 movement. A high-performance calibre of superb precision and proven robustness, it offers a 70-hour power reserve. That means that the wearer can take it off on a Friday evening and it won’t even need to be wound before work on Monday morning. With the combination of detailed design and peak precision, the TUDOR Pelagos LHD is everything TUDOR dive watches offer – just on the other hand.