Tudor Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue

Russell Sheldrake

• Tudor introduces a brand new search for the Black Bay 54 with the Lagoon Blue. 
• With a light-weight blue, sand-textured dial and mirror-polished metal bezel.
• Solely out there on a five-link bracelet with T-Match clasp.

There’s something to be mentioned for a summer season watch. The levity, pleasure, and carefree perspective they carry to your wrist and day is unmatched, and I feel Tudor could have simply launched the watch of the summer season with the brand new Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue. With a cool blue dial that has a never-before-seen sand texture to it and a mirror-polished stainless-steel bezel, this watch feels fully totally different to the tool-like authentic 54 that’s based mostly on the watch chosen by the French and US navies to take into battle.

Let’s dive into the main points on this and what makes it such an thrilling new addition to the Tudor line up. We’re beginning to get used to seeing Tudor produce vibrant dials at this level. Whether or not it’s Flamingo Blue, Pink, or VCARB Blue, it’s getting increasingly more daring and branching out from its software roots. So after we see an ice blue dial color with a wealthy sand-like texture utilized to it, it makes extra sense contained in the Tudor universe. This watch even finds itself inside Tudor’s new Daring Watches household, suggesting it is perhaps more durable to pay money for than the remainder of {the catalogue}.

Whereas this watch has an extremely fashionable really feel to it, there are references within the Tudor archives which offer a priority for the polished metal bezel. You solely want return to the Nineteen Nineties to seek out examples of Oyster Prince Submariners that got here with very comparable bezels, though as a substitute of the markings being engraved in a tone-on-tone look as they’re are with this new 54, they have been extra usually completed in a excessive distinction black.

If you mix this mirror-polished bezel with the five-link bracelet – the one strap possibility out there for this mannequin – it makes this watch really feel way more dressy than the all black, three-link rivet-style bracelet we’re used to seeing on this mannequin. And I’m a giant fan of this new aesthetic. It makes it really feel like it might be extra at residence at a seashore membership, relatively than over a wetsuit.

Past these modifications, every thing else that we all know and love concerning the 54 has stayed the identical right here. With the size of the case sticking to 37mm throughout, 11.2mm thick, and 46mm lug-to-lug, and in a position to stand up to 200m of water resistance, though I might think about this watch feeling extra at residence keeping off spilled drinks and the occasional dip within the pool relatively than deep sea water.

We additionally retain the manufacture calibre MT5400 that’s absolutely COSC licensed contained in the Tudor manufacture that provides the watch 70 hours of energy reserve. What extra may you ask for from a summer season watch that may maintain its personal by the pool, on the seashore, and at dinner afterwards.

Tudor Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue pricing and availability

The Tudor Black Bay 54 Lagoon Blue is on the market now from Tudor shops and retailers. Worth: £3,590