TUDOR Takes Pole Position with the All-New Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25”

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As the racing season returns to Florida, TUDOR celebrates its partnership with Visa Cash App Racing Bulls (VCARB) Formula One team with an all-new Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25” — a tech-forward, carbon fibre-cased chronograph draped in the team’s 2025 livery.

Since the ‘50s, TUDOR has gone wheel-to-wheel with the world’s leading motorsport teams, with calibres and race car engines revving in sync — embracing a mutual passion for adrenaline and victory. Performance, safety, and precision are critical aspects of motorsport, but what separates winners from losers is time. Champions and legacies and made and lost within fractions of a second. This emotion is central to TUDOR, as they even equipped Porsche 906 drivers from the late ‘60s with their watches. TUDOR carries this spirit of mechanical performance and precision timekeeping onto present-day racetracks, as VCARB drivers Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar choose TUDOR as their cockpit companions.

Legacy Forged in Carbon

The Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25” is all things Formula One, and reinforces TUDOR’s presence on the racetrack. As less weight means more speed, TUDOR has forged this model’s case out of an ultra-light material: carbon fibre. To shed further weight, TUDOR also employed a matching one-piece integrated tachymetric bezel, chronograph sub-counters and strap end-links, all cast in carbon fibre. As a feat of form meets function, this aesthetic code also nods to the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Formula One team’s 2025 season livery.

A Tale of Asphalt & Sea

TUDOR’s 1970 Oysterdate sparked a helix arc of precision, reliability, and functionality for decades to follow, with an immortalized dial layout consisting of a 45-minute counter and date window at six o’clock. TUDOR’s Black Bay Chrono collection carries this heritage forward with a relentless spirit of innovation. This is clubbed with another TUDOR signature: ‘Snowflake’ hands, first appeared in 1969 to offer better legibility to the Marine Nationale divers (French Navy), which too, was almost immediately adopted by the world of motorsport at the time. The TUDOR Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25” remains faithful to both these legacy characteristics.

Adrenaline, Refuelled

Reimagining the icon, the new Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25” boasts a ‘racing white’ dial with two hollowed, carbon fibre sub-counters at three and nine o’clock, outlined by a VCARB blue ring. Inspired by first-gen TUDOR chronographs, the dial layout features a 45-minute counter and date window at six o’clock. The ‘Snowflake’ hands are outlined in black and are dipped in Grade ‘A’ Swiss Super-LumiNova®.

Carrying a Black Bay signature, the model includes bevelled lugs and a rose-signed crown. While the 42-millimetre case is entirely forged out of carbon fibre, the crown and screw-down chronograph pushers at two and four o’clock consist of black PVD-coated titanium. The caseback boasts an engraving of the year ‘2025’, the timepiece’s unique number, and a top-side-view of a Formula One race car. Offering water resistance of 200 metres (660 feet), the tire-patterned strap consists of a leather-rubber hybrid material and carbon fibre endlinks.

The Manufacture Chronograph Calibre MT5813

Inside, the automatic Calibre MT5813 accurately tracks time and moments of victory. Certified by the COSC (Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute), the MT5813 displays hour, minute, seconds, date, and boasts a chronograph function. Surpassing the traditional certification requirements of -4/+6 seconds’ variations per day, TUDOR’s MT5813 delivers a -2/+4 variation, along with a column wheel mechanism and vertical clutch.

Respecting their age-old vows of precision, robustness, and reliability, TUDOR guarantees quality timekeeping reaffirmed by an array of extreme tests. Furthermore, as this movement is derived from Breitling’s Chronograph Manufacture Calibre B01 and its high-precision regulating organ, it offers the best of both brands as they pool their expertise in design and mechanical technicality. Finally, in signature TUDOR Manufacture finishing, the tungsten monobloc rotor is open-worked with satin-brushed, sand-blasted details with polished surfaces and laser decorations. TUDOR confirms that only 2,025 Black Bay Chrono “Carbon 25” pieces will be made —paying homage to this milestone year in TUDOR’s ever-evolving motorsport history.