Tudor Black Bay 54 Rubber
Tudor was founded in Geneva in 1926 as a sister brand to Rolex, built to offer Swiss-made professional tool watches at a more accessible price point. The Black Bay 54, introduced in 2023, is the most historically faithful watch in Tudor's modern catalogue — a 37 mm diver that traces its proportions, case shape and dial details directly back to the Tudor reference 7922 of 1954, the very first dive watch the brand ever produced. The black dial variant is the purist configuration: no colour, no distraction, just the essentials.
Reference M79000N-0002 is a 37 mm stainless steel automatic diver's watch, 11.2 mm in thickness, with a polished and brushed case and a screw-down crown bearing the Tudor rose in relief. The black domed dial carries gilt dot hour markers with off-white Super-LumiNova inserts and Tudor's signature snowflake hands — a lollipop-tipped central seconds hand completing the vintage-faithful layout. No date window interrupts the clean dial. At its heart beats the Tudor Manufacture Calibre MT5400, COSC-certified, with a 70-hour power reserve. The domed sapphire crystal sits above a solid caseback. The unidirectional rotating bezel is in stainless steel with a black aluminium insert carrying no minute graduations — a deliberate period-correct choice. Water resistance is rated to 200 metres. The watch is presented on a black rubber strap with steel endlinks and Tudor's T-fit micro-adjustable folding clasp.
This Tudor Black Bay 54 is in near mint condition and comes as a full set with factory warranty until 2029.