First launched in 2022, the Black Bay Professional is basically Tudor’s model of the Rolex Explorer II.
In 2025, Tudor lastly adopted up the unique black dial variant with a white dial model, as all of us knew they might in some unspecified time in the future.
The Black Bay Professional Opaline is delivered in the identical 200-meter water resistant 39 mm x 14.6 mm chrome steel case with an choice for a rivet-style tapered chrome steel bracelet, a non-tapered cloth strap with a yellow stripe, or a tapered leather-based and rubber hybrid strap.
Tudor used the identical computerized caliber MT5652 motion first seen within the Black Bay Professional with a black dial. The motion stays COSC-certified, so it’s thought of a “Chronometer” not a “Grasp Chronometer.”
Whereas no enhancements have been made to the Black Bay Professional assortment — it is a line extension — Tudor sadly raised the worth between the launch of the unique Black Bay Professional in 2022 and now. In that roughly three yr interval the worth has risen $375 on all references.
For 4 grand plus, you get a real “flyer” GMT (the place the native/foremost hour hand jumps in one-hour increments), with a yellow snowflake-tipped 24-second hour hand, that appears loads like Rolex’s 42 mm Explorer II (which has an orange 24-hour arrow tipped second hour hand), a watch that presently prices $9,750 greater than double. The Black Bay Professional is 3 mm much less in diameter and isn’t as skinny because the Explorer II. Neither is it adjusted to Superlative, and even Grasp Chronometer ranges earlier than it leaves the manufacturing unit, although it options an in-house GMT motion, adjusted to raised than Chronometer specs -4/+6 (Tudor Black Bay Professional -2/+4), which remains to be impressively exact.
Being that Rolex watches are positioned at luxurious value factors now, and the Skilled chrome steel fashions are far more durable to get than any Tudor reference, the Black Bay Professional might be the proper choice for some. Particularly if you wish to take it out and discover, with out worrying about preserving it pristine.
The Black Bay Professional with an Opaline “Polar” dial is $4,050 on a strap (Ref. M79470-005, black cloth strap with yellow stripe, non-tapered or Ref. M79470-006, black leather-based and rubber strap, tapered) or $4,375 on a chrome steel bracelet (Ref. M79470-004, chrome steel bracelet).
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