Tudor Black Bay 58 'Friends of Hodinkee'

While we built our business—and our passion—around vintage watches, few contemporary collections capture that same spirit as convincingly as Tudor’s Black Bay. And none more so than the Black Bay Fifty-Eight.

The Fifty-Eight distills everything collectors admire about vintage dive watches—especially those from Tudor and Rolex—into a thoroughly modern, effortlessly wearable timepiece. First introduced with a black dial in stainless steel, the line has since grown to include bold alternatives in bronze, gold, and even sterling silver.

This example, Reference 79030N, is one of the original variants and was produced as part of a limited edition of just 100 pieces created exclusively for Hodinkee friends and family in 2019. Stamped with the Hodinkee name on the dial, this co-branded release is now something of a cult classic. It features a 39mm stainless steel case with sapphire crystal, a unidirectional rotating bezel with a black gilt insert, and a luminous gilt dial with Tudor’s signature snowflake hands. At its heart is the automatic, chronometer-certified Tudor MT5400 movement. The watch comes paired with a stainless steel rivet-style bracelet and a signed Fliplock clasp.

Showing only light wear from careful use, this rare Black Bay Fifty-Eight is accompanied by its complete factory set, including boxes, booklets, serialized hangtag, extra links, and a warranty card.

For those who love the soul of vintage Tudor and Rolex but want the confidence of a modern diver, few watches strike the balance as perfectly as the Black Bay Fifty-Eight—especially in this unusually rare and highly coveted Hodinkee edition.

Rolex founder Hans Wilsdorf created Tudor in 1926 for the everyman — for miners, construction workers and all sorts of tradesmen. For your everyday person Rolex was sometimes — and is now more so than ever — out of reach. It was meant for the explorer and the businessman, whereas Tudor was to be a different creature entirely.

In creating Tudor, Wilsdorf wanted to offer “a watch that our agents could sell at a more modest price than our Rolex watches, and yet one that would attain the standards of dependability for which Rolex is famous.”

Tudors were in many ways Rolexes in all but name, with the same waterproof Oyster cases and similar styling. However, in order to keep costs down, the brand used off-the-shelf Swiss movements rather than their own in-house calibres. What resulted were watches that were more affordable than Rolexes to the consumer, but still uniformly tough and reliable.

Today Tudor has certainly defeated any impression of being the redheaded stepchild of the Rolex family, and their current timepiece collection — as well as their vintage counterparts — are getting the recognition and respect they most rightfully deserve. From the colorful “Home Plate” chronograph to the complicated Advisor, these models often picked up where Rolex left off, daring to be more bold and playful in their design. And now that the brand has introduced in-house movements while still managing to keep pricing modest, the company is better poised than ever to win the hearts and minds of millions of new watch enthusiasts.

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