Watches are a classic gift option, as they have great utility and can last a lifetime. Above all, a good watch can match anything you’re wearing – and even elevate your entire ensemble. Enter renowned luxury watch brand TUDOR, and its latest line of timepieces: Black Bay Pro, Black Bay GMT S&G, Black Bay Chrono S&G, Black Bay 31/36/39/41 S&G, and The Tudor Royal.
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TUDOR Black Bay Pro
The Black Bay Pro is a brand-new model featuring a dual time zone function, a technical complexity that allows you to set local time while monitoring time in another time zone. This model is compact, durable, and athletic, with numerous distinctive aesthetic touches that honour the essence of TUDOR’s technical timepieces for professionals throughout its history.
The TUDOR Manufacture Calibre MT5652 with built-in GMT function powers the Black Bay Pro, which is distinguished by its 24-hour graduated satin-brushed fixed bezel and its orange 24-hour “Snowflake” hand.
Key Characteristics
- ADVENTURE SPIRIT AND TECHNICAL AESTHETICS
The Black Bay Pro model pays homage to the pioneering explorers’ tools of the past. This is a tool watch made for professionals. While this watch is part of the Black Bay series, it features a number of new and distinct aesthetic features, beginning with the winding crown, which has been completely reworked for optimal grip.
This new component is fitted flush to the central case band so that its tube is not visible, similar to the curves found on the crowns of the brand’s classic technical watches. The attached hour markers on the dial are composed of monobloc luminous ceramic, which is a novel innovation. This function improves the Black Bay Pro’s mechanical look while significantly boosting the luminous surface of the hour markers.
- DUAL TIME ZONES
The reference time is represented on the Black Bay Pro model by an angular orange “Snowflake” hand, a TUDOR aesthetic characteristic, which completes a lap of the dial every 24 hours. Another, smaller “Snowflake” handset by a leaping hour, which can be pushed backward or forwards, indicates local time. The date, which is shown through an aperture at 3 o’clock, is linked to the local time hand so that when adjusting the time and passing midnight in retrograde, it jumps to the previous day immediately. For the user, this is a highly uncommon, smart, and extremely useful feature.
- MANUFACTURE CALIBRE MT5652
TUDOR developed the Manufacture Calibre MT5652 with a built-in GMT feature for the Black Bay Pro model. It demonstrates TUDOR’s unique technological development approach, which relies on flexible design to include new functionalities into produced motions rather than relying on extra modules. For some, it’s a trivial point, but for watchmakers, it’s essential.
Its variable inertia balance, which is maintained by a solid traversing bridge with a two-point fixation, has been built to provide robustness, lifespan, dependability, and accuracy. The Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Agency (COSC) has validated the Manufacture Calibre MT5652 as a chronometer, thanks to its non-magnetic silicon balance spring, and its performance exceeds the requirements set by this independent institute.
In addition, although COSC permits a daily running variation of between -4 and +6 seconds in reference to absolute time in a single movement, TUDOR insists on a daily running variation of between -2 and +4 seconds when the watch is fully built.
- JACQUARD-WOVEN / LEATHER STRAP / STEEL BRACELET
TUDOR chose a black strap with a yellow band woven by traditional artisans for the Black Bay Pro. A stainless steel bracelet is also available, which is inspired by TUDOR’s folding riveted bracelets from the 1950s and 1960s. The exposed rivet heads on the side of the bracelet that kept the links together made them renowned. There was a characteristic stepped design to the links as well.
The new bracelet incorporates modern production processes with solid links and laser-finished rivet-style heads, as well as these two aesthetic features. Finally, the Black Bay Pro also comes with a black rubber and leather hybrid strap with a folding clasp.
TUDOR Royal
TUDOR originally adopted the name Royal to emphasise the amazing quality of their watches in the 1950s. With this in mind, the TUDOR Royal collection includes self-winding sporty watches with integrated bands that are both inexpensive and uncompromising.
This range lies at the crossroads of classic and sports watches, offering first-class mechanical performance and a sophisticated design. It’s available in stainless steel or gold and steel, and there are nine different dials to choose from.
Key Characteristics
- #BORNTODARE
The TUDOR Royal collection is a part of this unyielding legacy, offering its future owner nothing less than the highest quality at the lowest price. The casing of the TUDOR Royal models is waterproof in all conditions and to 100 meters (330 feet) below sea level owing to its screw-down crown and case-back, which are made in Switzerland from a block of one of the most durable stainless steels available, 316L steel.
Despite not being visible, the movement – the pinnacle of Swiss watchmaking knowledge – is exquisitely adorned and calibrated to the watchmaking industry’s finest chronometry standards. Finally, because of the high quality of its design, production, and finishing, the smooth and seamless “five-link” metal bracelet stands out.
- INTEGRATED BRACELET
The TUDOR Royal line is the pinnacle of balance, elegance, and adaptability. The Royal’s distinctive notched bezel, with its alternating surface polish and carved grooves, is only one of the design features that distinguish it. TUDOR Royal exudes fluidity and unmistakable design with its integrated metal bracelet that ensures an unbroken line with the case.
The smooth quality of its surfaces and edges emphasizes the significance that TUDOR takes on assuring its comfort on the wrist, as seen by its three large satin-brushed links positioned between two thinner polished parts. It’s The precise finishes of the models in this line appeal to every taste. They are available in stainless steel or with alternating links in stainless steel and yellow gold. There are also four sizes to choose from.
- REFINED DIALS
The sunray design is used on the dials of the TUDOR Royal collection. The sunray design spreads from the center of the dial in black, silver, champagne-color, or blue, generating stunning lighting effects and reflections that emphasize Royal’s sophisticated character. A diamond-set mother-of-pearl variation for the smallest diameter rounds off the collection.
TUDOR has incorporated applied Roman numeral hour markers to its TUDOR Royal timepieces for a last touch of sophistication. These applied numerals are available on all dials and may be substituted with eight diamond-set hour markers.
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Tudor Black Bay Chrono S&G
Since the introduction of the Oysterdate, the brand’s first chronograph, in 1970, TUDOR has been creating timepieces that are directly linked to the world of motorsport. Similarly, TUDOR has been continually developing its professional divers’ timepieces since 1954.
These traditions are combined in the Black Bay Chrono S&G model, a sporty chronograph with contrasting sub-counters, and a high-performance automatic Manufacture Calibre with column wheel and vertical clutch.
Key Characteristics
- THE SPIRIT OF EARTH AND SEA
To provide great readability against the domed dial, the Black Bay Chrono S&G has incorporated the renowned “Snowflake” hands, which have been a brand hallmark for divers’ watches since 1969. The dial comes in two colours: matt black or a sunray satin-finish champagne colour, and it has two recessed sub-counters in contrasting colours, champagne and matt black, for maximum readability.
The sub-counters have a circular-grained finish with a 45-minute counter and a date aperture at 6 o’clock, both inspired by the original generation of TUDOR chronographs. In a steel and yellow gold casing with a 41-millimeter diameter, the Black Bay’s distinguishing features are kept.
- BUNDLE / JACQUARD STRAP / STEEL / GOLD BRACELET
TUDOR selected a black strap crafted by traditional artisans for the Black Bay Chrono S&G model. A stainless steel and yellow gold bracelet is also available, inspired by TUDOR’s folding riveted bracelets from the 1950s and 1960s. The exposed rivet heads on the side of the bracelet that kept the links together made them renowned. There was a characteristic stepped design to the links as well. The new bracelet incorporates modern production processes with solid links and laser-finished rivet-style heads, as well as these two aesthetic features.
Finally, in line with the “1970s racing” theme, the Black Bay Chrono S&G provides a second bracelet option: a bund in dark brown leather with ecru topstitching that has been aged.
- MANUFACTURE CHRONOGRAPH CALIBRE MT5813
The Black Bay Chrono S&G model is powered by the Manufacture Calibre MT5813, which shows hours, minutes, seconds, chronograph, and date functions. It boasts the finish that TUDOR Manufacture Calibres are known for. It’s tungsten monobloc rotor is openwork and satin-brushed with sand-blasted features, and its bridges and mainplate are alternately sand-blasted and polished, with laser embellishments.
Tudor Black Bay GMT S&G
The Black Bay GMT S&G is a model featuring multiple time zones, a very practical complication that allows you to set local time while keeping track of two other time zones. The Black Bay GMT S&G is distinguished by its 24-hour graduated rotating bezel with two colours indicating day and night, as well as a subtle aesthetic tribute to the heritage of this watchmaking function.
Key Characteristics
- TRIPLE TIME ZONES
The reference time is represented on the Black Bay GMT S&G model by an angular “Snowflake” hand, a TUDOR aesthetic characteristic, which completes a lap of the dial every 24 hours. Another, smaller “Snowflake” handset by a leaping hour, which can be pushed backward or forwards, indicates local time.
The date is attached to the local time hand and shown through an aperture at 3 o’clock so that when setting the time and passing midnight in retrograde, it quickly jumps to the previous day. For the user, this is a really useful and technical detail. You may also keep track of a third-time zone with the 24-hour graded bidirectional rotating bezel and “24-hour” hand.
- MANUFACTURE CALIBRE MT5652
TUDOR created the Manufacture Calibre MT5652 with a built-in GMT function for the Black Bay GMT S&G model. It demonstrates TUDOR’s unique technological development approach, which relies on flexible design to include new functionalities into produced motions rather than relying on extra modules. For some, it’s a trivial point, but for watchmakers, it’s essential.
Its variable inertia balance, which is maintained by a solid traversing bridge with a two-point fixation, has been built to provide robustness, lifespan, dependability, and accuracy.
- STEEL AND GOLD BRACELET / JACQUARD-WOVEN / LEATHER STRAP
TUDOR chose a black strap with a beige band fashioned by these traditional craftspeople for the Black Bay GMT S&G. The watch may also be customized with a stainless steel and yellow gold band that is inspired by TUDOR’s folding riveted bracelets from the 1950s and 1960s. The exposed rivet heads on the side of the bracelet that kept the links together made them renowned.
There was a characteristic stepped design to the links as well. The new bracelet incorporates modern production processes with solid links and laser-finished rivet-style heads, as well as these two aesthetic features. Finally, the Black Bay GMT also comes with a brown leather strap with light top-stitching and a folding clasp as a choice.
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