Post by timelessluxwatches on Mar 21, 2018 15:03:51 GMT -6
New Tudor Watches for Baselworld 2018
We wanted to compile all of Tudor’s new releases into one easy to read page for your convenience. Please also visit our new Tudor pre-order page to learn more about each model or to pre-order your own new Tudor.
Let’s start with one of the two most important watches, in my opinion anyway, from Tudor this year, the Black Bay GMT. I doubt it’ll surprise many Tudor fans that Tudor has stuck with what works, focusing on expanding the Black Bay line, but they have become more daring. The Black Bay GMT is a good example of that. Drawing very directly from Tudor’s Rolex heritage, it nonetheless features a new in-house MT5652 movement as opposed to either a Rolex or ETA movement. I don’t know too much about this new movement, but it superficially appears to be from the existing line of movements with an added GMT complication, which is precisely what I’d expect.
As is usually the case with Tudor, the watch is available both on bracelet or various straps. On bracelet, it’s priced at a very reasonable $3,900, but the deal becomes even more tempting on any of the straps, particularly this one, at $3,575. That said, I think this particular watch really comes together on the bracelet, so that’s the one I’d recommend. No word yet on whether this is a “true” GMT complication, but given the Rolex pedigree and in-house movement, I certainly expect it to be.
The next remarkable watch is the Black Bay Fifty-Eight. The BB58, as I’m calling it, may not look like that big of a shift from the existing S&G models, with its roughly similar black and gold theme. It is, however, very different, and that’s due to its 39mm case size. Apparently, this required creating a new movement, the MT5402. Armed with this new movement, I anticipate we’ll be seeing more and more Tudors beneath the usual 40+ range getting in-house movements down the road.
Here’s our first look at the MT5402. I had to do a little digging, but I can tell you that the new MT5402 is just 26mm in diameter, compared to 33.8mm in the current MT5621 (etc.), a massive difference of roughly 8mm. In terms of design, despite the shrink, not much has changed, as it’s still the free sprung, silicon-hairspring, full balance bridge and 70 hour power reserve movement that we know from Tudor, at least as far as I can tell. You might be tempted to think that it’s merely a minitiarized version of the existing movement, but just looking at it, I can tell that there’s more going on in this movement. The bridges, for instance, seem to be quite different. The balance wheel may be the same, as this one looks massive compared to the rest of the movement. At any rate, it seems like the smaller movement will not be a downgrade.
Another great feature of this BB58 is that it’s apparently going to be much thinner, just 11.9mm compared to more than 14 on other in-house Black Bays. That alone might be enough to get me to favor this one. Unlike the GMT, which I prefer on a bracelet ($3,575 on this watch), I actually think I prefer this particular strap more, which is nice since it’s just $3,250.
Now we’ll go to the blue addition to the Black Bay family, the Black Bay 41 (and the Black Bay 36, and the Black bay 32). For brevity, we won’t get into the many different sizes of this watch, but suffice it to say, they’re very classic and very blue. All of the new models in this line continue to use the 2824, so depending on where you stand on the issue of in-house movements, that’s either good or bad news, but this is easily one of Tudor’s most popular models and the addition of this great new color is only going to help that.
This also has the intentional or unintentional benefit of helping distance it from its Rolex sibling, the Explorer. Remember, these come in a wide variety of sizes as of today, so if you tend to lean towards smaller watches, make sure to check out more of them on our pre-order page.
The last Black Bay we’ll look at is the new S&G. The new S&G is very similar to the original trio, but Tudor really amped up the gold factor with the dial this time around. In my opinion, this gives it an even greater vintage look than the first S&Gs, and certainly more wrist presence.
This 41mm watch is available for either $4,975 on bracelet, or $3,775, a pretty sizable difference owing to the gold in the bracelet.
Finally, we take a look at the new 1926 models, named after the date that Tudor (well, technically “The Tudor”) was established as a trademark. I think these are quite fetching, and for those aiming for either a dressier or more casual look from Tudor should take a good look at them. Amazingly, Tudor released a massive 36 versions of this watch today, so we can’t get into all of them, but I’ll show you a few of my favorites, including this Opaline Dial model.
The simple black dial models, like this one, are more dressy and low-key. The new 1926 models are all powered by ETA movements, again, either a pro or con depending on your stance on in-house movements.
And here’s my last favorite from the ’26 line, the silver dial. They come in black and gold two tone as well. Keep in mind that you can get these anywhere from 41mm all the way down to just 28mm, so there’s a wide variety here.
We’ll update this with more Tudor news as we find it!
We wanted to compile all of Tudor’s new releases into one easy to read page for your convenience. Please also visit our new Tudor pre-order page to learn more about each model or to pre-order your own new Tudor.
Let’s start with one of the two most important watches, in my opinion anyway, from Tudor this year, the Black Bay GMT. I doubt it’ll surprise many Tudor fans that Tudor has stuck with what works, focusing on expanding the Black Bay line, but they have become more daring. The Black Bay GMT is a good example of that. Drawing very directly from Tudor’s Rolex heritage, it nonetheless features a new in-house MT5652 movement as opposed to either a Rolex or ETA movement. I don’t know too much about this new movement, but it superficially appears to be from the existing line of movements with an added GMT complication, which is precisely what I’d expect.
As is usually the case with Tudor, the watch is available both on bracelet or various straps. On bracelet, it’s priced at a very reasonable $3,900, but the deal becomes even more tempting on any of the straps, particularly this one, at $3,575. That said, I think this particular watch really comes together on the bracelet, so that’s the one I’d recommend. No word yet on whether this is a “true” GMT complication, but given the Rolex pedigree and in-house movement, I certainly expect it to be.
The next remarkable watch is the Black Bay Fifty-Eight. The BB58, as I’m calling it, may not look like that big of a shift from the existing S&G models, with its roughly similar black and gold theme. It is, however, very different, and that’s due to its 39mm case size. Apparently, this required creating a new movement, the MT5402. Armed with this new movement, I anticipate we’ll be seeing more and more Tudors beneath the usual 40+ range getting in-house movements down the road.
Here’s our first look at the MT5402. I had to do a little digging, but I can tell you that the new MT5402 is just 26mm in diameter, compared to 33.8mm in the current MT5621 (etc.), a massive difference of roughly 8mm. In terms of design, despite the shrink, not much has changed, as it’s still the free sprung, silicon-hairspring, full balance bridge and 70 hour power reserve movement that we know from Tudor, at least as far as I can tell. You might be tempted to think that it’s merely a minitiarized version of the existing movement, but just looking at it, I can tell that there’s more going on in this movement. The bridges, for instance, seem to be quite different. The balance wheel may be the same, as this one looks massive compared to the rest of the movement. At any rate, it seems like the smaller movement will not be a downgrade.
Another great feature of this BB58 is that it’s apparently going to be much thinner, just 11.9mm compared to more than 14 on other in-house Black Bays. That alone might be enough to get me to favor this one. Unlike the GMT, which I prefer on a bracelet ($3,575 on this watch), I actually think I prefer this particular strap more, which is nice since it’s just $3,250.
Now we’ll go to the blue addition to the Black Bay family, the Black Bay 41 (and the Black Bay 36, and the Black bay 32). For brevity, we won’t get into the many different sizes of this watch, but suffice it to say, they’re very classic and very blue. All of the new models in this line continue to use the 2824, so depending on where you stand on the issue of in-house movements, that’s either good or bad news, but this is easily one of Tudor’s most popular models and the addition of this great new color is only going to help that.
This also has the intentional or unintentional benefit of helping distance it from its Rolex sibling, the Explorer. Remember, these come in a wide variety of sizes as of today, so if you tend to lean towards smaller watches, make sure to check out more of them on our pre-order page.
The last Black Bay we’ll look at is the new S&G. The new S&G is very similar to the original trio, but Tudor really amped up the gold factor with the dial this time around. In my opinion, this gives it an even greater vintage look than the first S&Gs, and certainly more wrist presence.
This 41mm watch is available for either $4,975 on bracelet, or $3,775, a pretty sizable difference owing to the gold in the bracelet.
Finally, we take a look at the new 1926 models, named after the date that Tudor (well, technically “The Tudor”) was established as a trademark. I think these are quite fetching, and for those aiming for either a dressier or more casual look from Tudor should take a good look at them. Amazingly, Tudor released a massive 36 versions of this watch today, so we can’t get into all of them, but I’ll show you a few of my favorites, including this Opaline Dial model.
The simple black dial models, like this one, are more dressy and low-key. The new 1926 models are all powered by ETA movements, again, either a pro or con depending on your stance on in-house movements.
And here’s my last favorite from the ’26 line, the silver dial. They come in black and gold two tone as well. Keep in mind that you can get these anywhere from 41mm all the way down to just 28mm, so there’s a wide variety here.
We’ll update this with more Tudor news as we find it!
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