Beauty & Style | Tuesday 20 October, 2015 4:41 pm |

TUDOR has announced a new version of its signature diving watch:  Heritage Black Bay.  The latest addition comes in black and exalts the original purpose of the submariner tool-watches and their use on the wrists of divers serving in some of the world’s greatest navies.  This TUDOR classic is now available in select Ahmed Seddiqi & Sons stores across the UAE.  

 

First presented in 2012 and awarded with the “revival” category prize by the jury of the 2013 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, TUDOR Black Bay is a long-lost treasure, returning to the light of day.

 

The Heritage line by TUDOR is distinguished by the unique creative process of the brand’s Style Workshop as well as an exceptional attention to detail. The very opposite of a mere re-edition, a Heritage product is the powerful result of a true temporal and stylistic encounter of past, present and future. The aesthetic codes that contributed to the renowned historic models are preserved and injected with modern touches to update its iconic status. The TUDOR Heritage Black Bay embodies the pinnacle of this creative approach, since its inspiration is anchored, not in a historic model, but rather in the nearly 60 years of the brand’s emblematic divers’ watches.

 

The TUDOR Heritage Black Bay derives its overall lines and its domed crystal from the brand’s first divers’ watch, the TUDOR Submariner reference 7922, launched in 1954. It also owes to its ancestor its domed dial, a feature shared by the first TUDOR Submariner models, but which had since vanished. Its imposing winding crown is a nod to a model presented in 1958 under reference 7924 and dubbed “Big Crown” by collectors. Its characteristic angular hands, known by connoisseurs as “Snowflakes”, were seen from 1969 to the early 1980s. These multiple references to the brand’s aesthetic heritage, combined with contemporary design elements such as the robust 41 mm steel case with a refined finish, a coloured, anodized aluminum crown tube, as well as superbly crafted interchangeable bracelets make the TUDOR Heritage Black Bay a watch with a powerful identity that vividly embodies the brand’s renewal process.