De Black Bay wordt ingewikkeld en Tudor voegt een verrassende draai in de beweging toe ...
In de loop der jaren heeft Tudor hun beheersing van een bepaald genre van historisch revisionistische bricolage bewezen - uiteraard door hun fan-favoriete duiker, de machtige Black Bay. Met uitzondering van nu is dat straight-up duiker classificatie niet zo makkelijk zitten. De 36 en 41 modellen geven een aantrekkelijke aanraking, en de Chrono brengt een stevige dosis sportieve stijl aan de mix. Dus misschien is de echte vraag: gaat de pick-and-mix-aanpak, die Tudor zo goed met het relatief beperkte palet van de 'gewone' Black Bays doet - werken met dit ingewikkelder aanbod? En dan, natuurlijk, is er die beweging ...
De zaak
The 41mm steel case of the BB Chrono is at once familiar and unfamiliar. The shape and high, slab-like sides are classic Black Bay, but the additional pushers and tachymetre bezel are new to the family and quite unfamiliar. Except that they’re kind of not. If you punch “Tudor 79180” into Google you’ll find countless examples of the ‘Big Block’ chronograph, first introduced in 1976 (six years after their first chronograph, the Prince Oysterdate) which shares the engraved steel bezel and those fluted, screw-down chronograph pushers. So while the bezel and pushers may not be design details featured on recent Tudor watches, they’re certainly a prominent part of their history. One detail that’s a key part of the historic models but absent on this release is a crown guard. I understand it might be messing with the Black Bay design codes a little too much, but I really think that a crown guard would have given a more pleasing visual symmetry to the case design and a neater look to the chronograph pushers, especially when they’re fully unscrewed. The case is rated to 200m, as per usual.
The dial
Like the case, the dial of the BB Chrono is a mix of old and new. The snowflake hour hands are very much in evidence, although in a slightly slimmed down form to allow for greater chronograph legibility. The applied ‘dot’ markers are still on the scene too, though the baton-like 3,6,9, markers have disappeared, replaced by subdials and a date. The subdials – plainly printed and slightly recessed – are nicely executed and well proportioned. The left is running seconds and the right is a 45 minute counter. There’s a date at six, on a white disk neatly recessed in the matt black dial. And while many people find dates jarring, I actually think the pop of white adds some nice balance and works better than a lone, large hour marker would.
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