About this watch

Reference 79360N is the Black Bay Chrono, and this is the version Tudor markets as Flamingo Blue — a pale turquoise dial with black counters, which the specification sheet lists rather more plainly as “turquoise with black counters, domed”. The colour is the whole watch. It is a long way from anything Rolex would put its name to, and that freedom is more or less Tudor’s job description. Set against a matt black anodised aluminium bezel insert and two black sub-dials it reads as a reverse panda in a colour that has no business being on a chronograph, and it works. Underneath is the Manufacture Calibre MT5813, self-winding, with approximately 70 hours of power reserve and chronometer certification from the COSC. The date sits at six o’clock rather than wedged between four and five, which keeps the dial symmetrical: two counters, two crown guards, one date. Forty-one millimetres of stainless steel, 14.4 mm thick, with a fixed steel bezel carrying a tachymetric scale in silver on black, a domed sapphire crystal and water resistance to 200 metres. The bracelet is the five-link steel one with Tudor’s T-fit clasp, which adjusts by hand across a useful range without tools — a small thing t…