EDITOR’S PICK: Feel the power of…Tudor’s Black Bay Dark

Editor’s note: For a watch that sits in Tudor’s Heritage collection, the BB Dark is awfully modern thanks to its unrelieved black-on-black colour scheme. It offers a “tacticool” take on the perennial favourite and makes the question, “how many Black Bays is too many?”  that much harder to answer. The story in a second: It’s time you met the dark horse of the Black Bay family After four years of tantalising, tactical releases culminating in the near perfect surprise announcement of the Black Bay Black last year, we weren’t expecting a new Black Bay in 2016. Well, we were wrong. Tudor gave us not one, but three completely new takes on its modern classic (and updated all the existing models to boot). So now, in addition to the colourful trio of red, blue and black we’ve got the mighty bronze, the petite 36 and today’s subject, the midnight hued Black Bay Dark. The case The first thing you notice about the Dark is how apt the name is. It’s a starkly monochromatic watch, the black and white colour scheme only relieved with the occasional flash of red. Of course the dial and bezel are big parts of this picture, but it’s the…

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