Tudor Black Bay 58 79030N

Tudor Black Bay 58 79030 Apple Employee Collectors Group "Pirate" Limited Edition

Unveiled in 2012 at Baselworld, the Tudor Black Bay has quickly become one of Tudor’s best-selling collections as it takes direct inspiration from the iconic Tudor Submariner ref. 7922. Seeking to build on the aesthetics of the early Submariner models, the Black Bay family is beloved by Tudor’s collectors for its vintage-inspired design traits like its faux-rivet bracelet, gilt inscriptions, anodized aluminum bezel insert, and large crown. Further refined in 2018, Tudor launched the Black Bay Fifty-Eight as they dove even deeper into their archives and drew inspiration from their 1958 Submariner “Big Crown” Ref. 7924. With its red arrow-featuring dive bezel, thinner profile and 2mm smaller case diameter of 39mm, the BB58, as it is called, was a more refined version of its older sibling, with the very same depth rating of 200m – a true dive watch. Receiving intensely positive reception straight away, the BB58 has quickly become Tudor’s most popular watch. Indeed, such a positive reception has even caught the eye of a private Apple employee collectors group. Collaborating with Tudor, this group, inspired by an 1980s splinter group of Apple employees led by Steve Jobs in 1983, the group had the Jolly Roger skull and crossbones pirate flag design printed on the dial at 6 o’clock by Tudor. Limited to just 82 individually-numbered pieces, and boasting the pirate flag on their casebacks, these timepieces are a wonderful reminder of Apple’s disruptive history and eventual growth into one of the world’s most influential and important companies.