This article was originally published in the March/April 2022 Issue of the WatchTime print magazine. Photos by Olaf Köster.

Without much fanfare, Tudor has elevated the Black Bay to the status of a Master Chronometer. This classic timepiece now upholds one of the strictest qualitative and technological standards in the watch industry. And the new Black Bay Ceramic underscores Tudor?s intention to no longer be regarded as Rolex?s younger sibling.

The certification of Master Chronometers means that Tudor has definitively emancipated itself, following its own path and setting itself apart in the industry, where no other brand except Omega offers watches in Master Chronometer quality. Omega, which belongs to the Swatch Group, certifies almost every watch in its collection as a Master Chronometer. Like Omega, Tudor has set up an in-house testing facility and conducts on-site tests under the supervision of the independent certification institute METAS (Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology). This leads us to conclude that the Black Bay Ceramic will surely not be the only watch from Tudor to leave the company as a certified Master Chronometer. But what exactly does ?Master Chronometer? mean for Tudor and the Black Bay Ceramic" First of all, it confirms that this watch is ?Swiss made? and that its movement has been certified as a chronometer by the Swiss testing institute Contrôle Officiel Suisse des Chronomètres (COSC), which measures the precision of the timeke...