Feature: Tudor Releases Black Bay Chrono S&G At W&W
This isn’t the first Tudor Black Bay Chronograph in steel and gold, but the previous model featured a black dial with gold-toned (or champagne) sub dials. Here, for this new release, they’ve flipped that colour combo for a champagne, satin-finish sunray dial with black chronograph registers. A kind of golden panda, if you like.
The effect is slightly more ostentatious but make no mistake, this is still very much a solid tool watch that will provide a cheaper alternative to two-tone Rolex Daytonas.
They’ve stuck with the trusted automatic Caliber MT5813 movement, a column-wheel and vertical clutch chronograph that derives from a long-standing collaboration with Breitling, the two brands pooling their expertise to tough it out with their rivals in a competitive market. It’s COSC-certified and has a power reserve of up to 70 hours.
Like the previous two-tone model, it’s a 41mm case with yellow gold crown and pushers, and the bezel is also yellow gold with an insert in matt-black anodised aluminium. The tachymetric scale bears the markings in yellow gold.
Besides the two chronograph registers there’s a date display at 6 o’clock and the hands and markers are coated in Grade-A Swiss Super Luminova.
Tudor are renowned for their casual strap options and this one comes with the choice of either two straps—a Nato-style woven ‘Jacquard’ black strap, or a ‘bund’ brown leather option—or a matching two-tone steel and yellow gold bracelet if you want to go all-out metal.
If the bund strap is to your taste but seems a little hefty, the wider part can be removed so that it looks like a standard strap.
The two-tone revival—which not everyone is greeting with enthusiasm—continues apace with this handsome new chronograph from high-flying Tudor, and makes an accessible alternative to the Rolex Daytona.
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