TWIN PEAKS

Tudor’s Black Bay collection keeps the hits rolling in with a new bronze model and a METAS-certified toughie

-  Alvin Wong

Can we just say that Tudor is absolutely smashing it in 2021? And we gotta admit, too, all of this coming at a time when we were starting to wonder if the talismanic Black Bay collection had started to plateau.

That is, until we were hit with Tudor’s one-two knockouts. First, at Watches And Wonders with 18K yellow gold and 925 silver Black Bays, two wholly unexpected variants that shot the collection up the luxury ladder, and now these two: a Black Bay Ceramic that comes with Master Chronometer certification (pictured), and a full-bronze Black Bay Fifty-Eight that ups the style quotient.

METAS Might

Master Chronometers are an elite breed of timepieces that boast top-rated precision and anti-magnetism – accurate to 0/+5 seconds a day and resistant to magnetic fields of up to 15,000 gauss, to be exact. Besides these, Master Chronometers are tested on the Swiss-made constitution, power reserve and water-resistance – all done by an independent institute called METAS (Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology.

THE BLACK BAY FIFTY-EIGHT BRONZE FEATURES A PROPRIETARY ALCHEMY OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE ALUMINIUM BRONZE THAT IS HIGHLY CORROSION-RESISTANT