Most strap guides have to argue the case for a strap. This one doesn't.
An owner reviewing the Prince Date+Day put it plainly: he is all but forced to take the watch off its bracelet and put it on a strap, and the only silver lining is that the drilled lugs make it easy to do. All our Tudor watch straps are listed in one place, so you can compare colours and fits.
That's an unusual thing to read in a positive review of a watch — and it's the single most useful fact about owning a 76200. On this reference the strap isn't an upgrade or a style change. It's the fix. The good news is that Tudor, without meaning to, made it a two-minute job: drilled lug holes, 20mm lugs, and a case that suits almost anything.
Fit and size
The Tudor Prince Date+Day, ref. 76200, is:
- 36mm steel Oyster case (about 38mm including the crown)
- 20mm lug width
- Just over 10mm thick, around 43mm lug-to-lug
- Drilled lug holes, sapphire crystal, 100m water resistance
- ETA-based automatic with a day window at 12 and a date window at 3
You want 20mm with a curved end — the Oyster case is round with a defined shoulder at the lugs.
Order from here and select 20mm: Curved FKM Rubber Straps – 18mm to 22mm.
One trap worth knowing. Tudor's modern 36mm watch — the Black Bay 36 — is 19mm, not 20mm. Two Tudors at the same case diameter, one millimetre apart, and straps do not swap between them. If you own both, they need separate straps. Ours for that one is covered in the Black Bay 36 guide.
Drilled lugs make this the easy part
Worth a moment, because it's the reason changing straps on a 76200 is genuinely painless.
The lugs have holes drilled through them. That means the spring bar pushes out from the outside with a pin rather than being levered from inside the lug gap, where a forked tool can slip and score the case flanks. On a watch with sharp, well-defined lugs — and the 76200's are one of its best features — that matters.
Fit fresh spring bars while you're in there. On a watch that's been sitting on a bracelet for a decade or two, the originals have earned their retirement.
It's a Day-Date, and the strap decides whether you lean into that
Now the actual decision, and it's a clean binary.
The 76200 is Tudor's version of the Rolex Day-Date: day spelled out at twelve, date at three, applied markers, an Oyster case, and a resemblance nobody has ever pretended was accidental. Collectors regularly call it the most desirable non-sport Tudor there is, and it's the closest thing to a president-cased dress watch that Tudor has ever sold in steel.
So you have two coherent directions and one mistake:
- Lean in. Treat it as the dress watch it resembles. Warm or dark restrained tones, nothing bright, nothing sporty. The watch becomes a 36mm suit watch with a complication most dress watches don't have, and it looks like a considered choice rather than a compromise.
- Lean away. It's also 100m water resistant, sapphire-crystalled and drilled-lugged — none of which a real dress watch is. Put it on rubber and it becomes an unpretentious everyday 36mm watch that happens to tell you what day it is. Nothing about that is disrespectful to the design.
- The mistake is landing between them — a strap that's neither formal enough to complete the Day-Date impression nor casual enough to break it. That's how the watch ends up looking like it's wearing someone else's clothes.
Pick a direction before you pick a colour.
If yours has the linen dial
Worth flagging separately, because it's the version collectors chase and it behaves differently.
The linen-textured silver dial reads as plain silver from across a room and reveals its weave only when light catches it up close. That's the whole charm of it, and it has one consequence: keep the strap smooth. A textured, patterned or heavily grained strap puts a second weave directly beneath the first, and the two compete rather than complement. On a linen dial, the dial should be the only texture on the watch.
Everything else — black dials, the deep blue ones — has no such constraint.
The 4 best straps for the Prince Date+Day 76200
1. Brown — the Day-Date reading, and the one most owners land on
Start here if you're leaning into what the watch resembles.
Brown warms up a watch that is otherwise all steel and silver, and it's the tone that suits the linen dial best — the two share a soft, slightly textile quality that a cold strap can't reach. Against applied markers and a polished Oyster case it reads properly formal without going as severe as black.
It's also the strap that makes a 36mm watch look intentional rather than small. Go medium to dark; a pale tan sits too close to a silver dial and the case loses its outline.
Shop: Brown Curved FKM Rubber Strap – 20mm
2. Black — the formal default, and the frame for a light dial
The safest choice and, on the silver and linen dials, the most effective.
Black puts a hard boundary under a bright dial, so the day and date windows and the applied markers read against a clearly defined object. On a watch this size, that framing is what stops it looking modest — a light dial fading into a light strap makes 36mm feel like 34mm.
It also handles the widest range of occasions. If you're buying one strap for this watch and you don't yet know which direction you want to take it, buy this one.
Shop: Black Curved FKM Rubber Strap – 20mm
3. Blue — for the blue dials, and the cool alternative
The 76200 came with some genuinely striking deep blue dials, and on those a blue strap is the obvious move: the colour runs from the dial to the buckle and a fairly conservative watch suddenly has a theme.
On silver and linen dials it does something different — it's the cool counterpart to brown, dressy without being severe, and it's the version of this watch you'd wear somewhere slightly less formal without dropping to rubber-and-jeans territory.
Mid-blue rather than near-black navy, so it still reads as blue at arm's length rather than as a slightly-off black.
Shop: Blue Curved FKM Rubber Strap – 20mm
4. Bordeaux — borrowing the Day-Date's own trick
The clever one, and it's specific to what this watch is imitating.
Some of the most recognisable Rolex Day-Dates ever made wear deep oxblood and burgundy dials — it's one of the signatures of that watch. The 76200 never got a burgundy dial, but it can borrow the association at the wrist instead, which is entirely in keeping with a watch whose whole proposition is the Day-Date look without the Day-Date cost.
Practically, bordeaux is dark enough to frame a light dial like black does, but it isn't a neutral — so the watch gains a colour without ever looking casual. It's the most interesting formal option on this list.
Shop: Bordeaux Curved FKM Rubber Strap – 20mm
Two more: beige suits a linen dial with warm-aged lume better than anything else on the list, and green is the clearest way to lean away from the dress reading altogether.
The full 20mm range is here: Curved FKM Rubber Straps.
Quick answers
What is the lug width of the Tudor Prince Date+Day 76200? 20mm, on a 36mm case.
Is it the same as the Black Bay 36? No. The Black Bay 36 is 19mm. Same case diameter, different width, and straps don't swap.
Does it have drilled lugs? Yes — the spring bar pushes out from the outside with a pin, so no tool goes inside the lug gap.
Why do owners take it off the bracelet? Reviewers have found the original bracelet uncomfortable enough that a strap becomes the practical option rather than a cosmetic one. The drilled lugs make the swap easy.
Can it get wet? It's rated to 100m with a sapphire crystal, so rubber is a sensible everyday choice rather than a compromise.
Which colour suits it best? Decide the direction first. Dress: brown, black or bordeaux. Everyday: blue or green. The one thing to avoid is landing between the two.
Getting one
The Prince Date+Day is one of the few Tudors that gives you a complication the modern catalogue simply doesn't offer — a day and a date, in a 36mm steel Oyster case, at a fraction of what the watch it resembles costs. It spent its final years sold mainly in the East, which is why so few people in the West have seen one in the metal.
It's also a watch whose owners keep reaching the same conclusion about the bracelet. Every Helvetus rubber strap carries a lifetime warranty, ships free worldwide with no import costs, and comes in 20mm as standard. More than 50,000 customers in over 60 countries have bought from us.
Pick your direction, buy brown or black first, and use the drilled lugs — that's what they're there for.
