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As with any watch, there are little details that are easy to miss unless you actually have the watch "on wrist" as James S. likes to say (what's he got against definite articles?). One of link them is the bezel where you have alternating wide and slim areas for the Arabics denoting 10-minute increments – 10 is narrow, 20 is wide, and so on.

The incredibly-transparent dial, creating a striking contrast between the different materials and naturally capturing light, interspersed with customizable "floating" indexes, unveils link a totally-openworked mechanical movement.

We were lucky enough to get some wrist time with a few of the watches. Prior to the auction on November 9th, the watches were shown in Dubai, Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taipei. With this link much travel, I hope one of the participating manufactures enters a World Timer next year!

This is actually not the first Black Bay in ceramic – you might remember that that honor goes to a watch Tudor created for the Only Watch benefit auction in 2019 (the auction is link held every two years, and proceeds go to benefit research into therapies and a cure for muscular dystrophy). That watch was the Black Bay Ceramic One, which hammered for CHF 350,000. The new Black Bay Ceramic is, however, the first full production Tudor Black Bay in ceramic.