Tudor adds world-time functionality to the Black Bay with new manufacture Caliber MT5652. Not only does the GMT version run more accurately than many other chronometer-tested watches, it boasts a 70-hour power reserve and the time displays can be set in several different ways.
The Tudor Black Bay GMT offers a user-friendly second-time-zone function at an appealing price point.
Acting globally and traveling around the world are no longer the exclusive privilege of pilots, top executives and other jet-setting professionals. A GMT function, which lets a watch?s wearer read the time in a second time zone, not only fits well in our globalized age, it?s also a good fit for the Tudor Black Bay. In the spirit of Rolex?s founder Hans Wilsdorf, who established Montres Tudor SA in 1946 as a high-quality but less costly alternative to Rolex, the Black Bay GMT, our test watch, preserves an appealing price-performance ratio while simultaneously encasing the brand?s own manufacture caliber. The Black Bay GMT not only has a time-zone function that?s well suited for everyday use, the model also reaffirms Tudor?s corporate strategy of achieving independence and a distinctive identity for the brand. Tudor relied on movements made by other Swiss manufacturers from its founding until 2015, when Calibers MT5612 and MT5621 became the first Tudor movements encased inside the brand?s watches. After chronograph Caliber MT5813, which was created in cooperation with Breitling, Caliber MT5652 now follo...