Tudor Black Bay S&G

Tudor is an interesting brand with a rich history. Hans Wilsdorf – founder of Rolex, was a brilliant strategist with a very good and clear vision for the future, and this is confirmed by his following words: “For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches. Yet it would have to be a watch that would attain the standard of dependability for which Rolex is famous. I decided to form a separate company, with the object of making and marketing this new watch. It is called the Tudor Watch Company.” Having created Rolex in the first decade of the 20th century and by that time already a leading figure in the world of luxury Swiss watches, he made this announcement on March 6th, 1946. It marked the birth of the Tudor brand and of its production and communication strategy. Hans Wilsdorf's intuition was as simple as it was brilliant. At that time, the development of the watchmaking industry was in full swing and today's widespread mergers and acquisitions in the sector were still a distant future. The public was ready to recognize and appreciate a product whose technical, aesthetic, and functional qualities were not offered by a newcomer to the market, but by the Rolex brand, which had already earned worldwide fame for the high quality of its watches. Initially, the rose was chosen as the company's logo – which is a reference to historical facts and more specifically to the Tudor royal dynasty (in whose coat of arms, as you know, the rose is central) and whose name was used for the brand's name. The model was first introduced in 2017 and immediately became sought-after and desired not only by fans of the brand, but also by watch collectors in general. One of the reasons for this is that it is actually a color-changed version of the Black Bay launched 5 years earlier, in a much more interesting combination. The sporty spirit of the model is evident in everything – starting with the crown, which is ribbed and oversized, moving through the design of the dial, and finishing with the gold unidirectional bezel – all of this simply screams that this is not just any watch, and its kinship with its big brother, the Submariner, is evident in many of these elements. At its heart beats the brand's in-house MT 5612 movement, with a 70-hour power reserve and operating at 28,800 vibrations – excellently proven and accessible in its maintenance. The bracelet is the Oyster type (as is, in fact, the entire case of the watch).