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Jamie Weiss
It’s honest to say that Tudor had a strong if not spectacular Watches and Wonders 2025. An apt method to put it’s that there’s no lead singer: the model’s releases have been iterative somewhat than revolutionary, and all have clearly been borne from group suggestions. There’s actually not a lot to complain about – I don’t need to be unfavourable right here! What was stunning is that we didn’t see a brand new Prince Chronograph “Large Block”. In our Tudor 2025 predictions article, that was the watch I used to be so certain Tudor would launch this honest.
My solely prediction that got here true is that Tudor would launch a white dial Black Bay Professional, and I really feel very vindicated! Truly, one other one in all my predictions got here true… Form of. I used to be assured that Tudor would launch a follow-up to the Black Bay Ceramic “Blue”, higher often called the group look ahead to System 1 group VCARB. And whereas they haven’t really launched such a watch, they’ve confirmed its existence and that it’ll be dropping in across the month.
On the bottom flooring of the Tudor sales space at Watches and Wonders, there’s an enormous Nixie tube countdown clock that reads “a brand new watch is coming”. It’s surrounded by F1 imagery (together with a sculpture of F1 automobiles), and is decked out in white and blue – VCARB group colors. Upstairs, there’s even an actual VCARB F1 automobile, in addition to a ‘pitstop station’ the place folks can practise altering tyres. This isn’t a case of studying between the traces right here: it’s fairly clear that Tudor is ready to double down on its F1 partnership.
As for when this watch might be revealed? Properly, there’s a month left on the timer, and in a month, we now have the Miami Grand Prix. Final 12 months, Tudor outfitted then-VCARB drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda with distinctive gradient dial Black Bay Ceramics, and also you’d additionally describe the Black Bay Chronos in Flamingo Blue and Pink as being fairly Miami-coded. I simply hope this second BB VCARB might be cased in white ceramic like I predicted…
