Tudor Black Bay Steel Thickness

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Tudor black bay steel thickness.

A dressier black bay. Regardless of what you choose you got a complimentary tudor fabric strap in black. The stripped down riff on tudor s black bay dive watch projects the kind of single minded solidity you can only get from a watch with zero complications zero numbers on the dial and a case that s the horological equivalent of a brick shit house. The tudor black bay chronograph was first shown at baselworld 2017 and right away it was the center of a great deal of attention and not a small amount of controversy.

It combines something of the black bay diving heritage with touches of dress watch aesthetics. The new tudor black bay steel has the same mt5612 as tudor s north flag and pelagos. When looking at 3 hand black bay models many look the same with the exception of color but. The complimentary fabric strap was however removed from the black bay set with the introduction of the new reference 79230.

First of all it was the very first tudor chronograph to use the breitling b01 chronograph movement which was a startling move to say the least and one which few if any outside breitling and tudor saw coming. The watch glass is flush with the bezel in polished steel and both watch glass and. It is no secret that tudor had a huge year at baselworld last year. Featuring a 41 x 50 x 14 8mm to the top of the domed sapphire crystal stainless steel case the black bay is a medium sized sport watch in terms of diameter and length.

First there was the black bay 36 which was not so secretly one of my favorite watches of the show and then we got the black bay bronze and the black bay dark well this year there is a new sheriff in town by the name of the tudor heritage black bay steel reference 79730. The tudor heritage black bay 79220r was when retailed available on either a leather strap or steel bracelet. So although it isn t a brand new caliber it is still a pretty cool movement with 70 hours of power reserve a somewhat standard 28 800 bph operating speed and a silicone hairspring in a price point where a totally in house movement is rare. Last year a new 36 mm black bay was presented and this year 2017 tudor has increased its size to 41 mm in the tudor heritage black bay 41.

This came to me from timeless luxury watches an authorized dealer out of texas. The tudor black bay 41 looks like it could spend 30 hours strapped to a pneumatic drill and keep on tickin. Coming in at 39mm wide 12mm thick and again featuring a new in house 70 hour power reserve movement to me this watch is exactly the release i wanted to see from tudor.