So…I'm Selling My Keeper Tudor Black Bay Pro. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
- 2022 was the year of the GMT given Rolex’s release of the GMT Master II Green Destro, the Seiko 5 SSK GMT, and of course the Tudor Black Bay Pro 79470. The Black Bay Pro piqued my interest when it was released and I knew I had to get it, and soon after wearing it I declared that it was going to be a keeper.
But now nearly a year one I’ve decided that its time to sell my Black Bay Pro. Seems like a bizarre choice right? Well I can explain. In this video, I’m going to go over the 3 main reasons why I’m selling my keeper Black Bay Pro and also the watch that I'm planning on buying using the funds that I get from the BB Pro. Spoiler alert, it's not bc it's too thick because like I’ve said before: it's one of the most comfortable watches I've owned.
(some background) Watches And Wonders is back for 2022 and it has provided us with some great surprises from Tudor, Rolex, Grand Seiko, Oris, and many more brands from the Richemont Group and beyond. However, the release that caught my eye the most was the all new Tudor Black Bay Pro. Every year after the release of the 41mm Black Bay GMT, we've been hoping for a newer smaller GMT from Tudor, and given that this year is Tudor's 10th anniversary, we were thinking that surely 2022 is the year it'll happen. We were all expecting and hoping for a Black Bay 58 GMT, but instead we got the 39mm Black Bay Pro, which is heavily influenced by the Rolex Explorer II 1655 Freccione. This was not at all expected but I am excited about this release because it is right up my alley considering how much I love the original Rolex Explorer II
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Reason 2 - 05:15
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Still have it? Lol
Sometimes something has to go to make room for something new. Not everyone can afford to keep everything that they have owned either financially or maybe because of room. I'm not quite in that situation yet but I can appreciate it completely. Best of luck with the new purchase TWI what ever it is. Watches and Wonders is just around the corner as well so plenty to look forward to.
I recently picked up the SSK and I’m obsessed. It’s the intricacy of the black dial. It’s 50 shades…
I’m with you in fixed bezel GMT’s. It’s utility is really if you’re only tracking one remote TZ and don’t travel much, or you just track UTC, or just use it as an AM/PM indicator for home time. Outside of that, it’s not an easy watch to quickly reference other TZ’s especially while you’re traveling.
The point of a true gmt watch is to set the 24 hour hand to your home timezone and being able to quick set your local time with the jumping hour hand while traveling. What you are describing isn't a gmt watch at all. A jumping 24 hour hand is a burden while traveling
I’m still wearing mine every day and loving it, the rest off my watches share the day shift (work). How did you clean up the bracelet?
The new 60th seamaster looks great for peeps that don’t like a date. I think I would struggle not to get the 2264, I’ve yet to get hands on with that or the 2254 but from pics they look great.
I was excited by the t50, I’d like a longer power reserve but at that price the clasp is a deal breaker, I’ll never wear a bracelet watch without on the fly adjustment.
SMP300 is a keeper for life. I'm extremely picky about keepers in my collection. I got mine (at an AD in LA funnily enough) and within the first couple days of wearing I knew. This is an instant classic that brings comfiness to a whole 'nother level (on the rubber strap of course). That beautiful black ceramic dial with the waves that look gray in the light... My god 😍. SMP300 is incredible value for what you get. Get one while you still can, I have a feeling prices will continue to go up for the SMP (it just went up by $200 for both rubber and steel versions) last month and eventually get harder to get.
Which of the 100 versions should I get? LOL
@@JackoWillMakeLives-loveu I like the most classic black dial with black bezel on rubber. In my opinion, the black ceramic dial with the black bezel, contrasts the best against the brushed steel sides of the case. It really makes the brushed and polished beveled edges pop because of the black and steel contrast. I also think the red "seamaster" text combined with the red seconds hand tip accent looks the best against the black dial and bezel. Add the waves that play with the light so well against the black c dial and look light gray or dark gray depending on the angle and.... 🤌🤌 chef's kiss my friend. The white dial is very nice too but the ceramic dial and waves doesn't play with the light like the black (and presumably blue dial) does. I would pick black dial first, then the green second (its a gorgeous dark green), blue third, and white last.
Having watched last week's seamaster video, I'm not surprised at all and I get what you're saying this level of keeper watch, the BB PRO is an incredible watch and you clearly enjoy it but you really seem to have a special connection with the Seamaster so if the BB Pro is going to be sold for any watch I'm glad to see that it's for the Seamaster
Yeah this level of keeper is a special one bc I would have kept the BB Pro had it not been for a very very compelling watch looking to take its place and i dont think i would sell the BB Pro for anything short of the Seamaster. Wearing it again was so special so lets see which version ends up in the collection!
I sold mine as well a few months back and don’t miss it. You know my vote will be for a 2254/2256, but waiting to see what Omega will be releasing soon is also a great idea. Decisions, decisions 🤔
Ah ok, did you end up selling it just bc it wasnt getting much wear? Yeah its a great watch but knowing that it'll make way for a seamaster will make things ok and in the end even wearing the BB Pro again for the video, i didnt get the urge to keep it. Yeah I know your vote for the 2254 lol, your comment last week was a very timely reminder for me! Here's to hoping for an brand new 2254 release from omega this year😁
@@thewatchidiot yeah, it came down to I wasn’t wearing it much and there was another watch that I wanted more.
I’m starting to realize that the thing I enjoy most about collecting is the experience of discovering new watches, and with a non-unlimited budget, I’ll always have to sell to buy from time to time.
I also sold mine a few months ago. It was cool, but not a forever. I am also an SSK fan.
Please look at the San Martin SN0112G. It’s the perfect meeting point between a 90s Explorer 2 and the Milsub, especially in its 60min timing insert configuration. Also comes with 12 hour and world time bezels.
I really like that two tone T50. But I'm kind of weird, usually when I first get a watch I'm disappointed but then it grows on me more. That's happened more than a few times.
The two tone T50 is really cool and the full bronze gold version is such a cool combo! I get what you mean, its happened to me a few times before that a watch slowly grew on me. The Traska Venturer GMT that I just got was like that!
Good luck with your sale, it's a nice watch.
Thanks man, I'm hoping the BB Pro will have a full life with whoever gets it!
You’re great. Don’t change.
For me, I’m selling mine now also, it’s the lume colour that has finally worn me down on annoyance, I’ve just decided I like black and white contrast so got a sinn 555a and pocket the extras for now.
Best thing about traveling with an SSK is you aren't the target of watch thieves.
I’m coming for you
Lol it was a keeper for me too… 3 months and yes it was the thickness for me. I purchased a Rolex 16570 polar and absolutely love it. Nice and thin, I have come to the conclusion I am a 12 ish mm thick or less guy.
I don't always need or want a bezel with numerals or markers on it. But when I do, it *must* rotate.😀
My watch collection is BB58Blue, BBPRO and recently Batgirl too.
The functionality of the Batgirl blows me away.
I have worn the BB58 a couple of times and do love the timer capability, as well as how easy it is to tell time without the extra fuss.
I put the BBPro on yesterday and have been really enjoying it.
My thoughts are, you can time stuff on any watch, just takes a little more mental capacity.
The Pro is a beautiful colour combination, that off white, the orange, really draws me in, I have the hybrid strap where the stitching colour matches the off white indices.
With regards to changing time on the fly, it is easy to change the local time, I leave my GMT on my home countries time always anyway (I'm from UK and live in NZ) so it doesn't effect me.
As much as the rotatable bezel would increase functionality, it isn't a deal breaker for me, the Pro has more useable functionality for me than the Pro.
I think the fixed bezel makes the watch feel more rugged (which it probably does from an engineering standpoint too).
I am debating buying the braclet for it 😊
The bracelet is truly awesome. I'm wearing my BBPro almost all the time because of it and get use of the full 8mm playroom on a daily basis. Highly recommend!
They should have put a bi-directional rotating bezel
Yeah if only they did! Would have been damn near perfect!
You gotta check out the new Longines zulu time in titanium, it's basically this watch but lighter and thinner and a rotatable bezel 👀
I have both the pro and the blue SMP. Both forever keepers in my collection, but so us any luxury piece I buy. I'm very specific with one watch per brand/utility/size/color, etc. Omega stole me with the blue smp 300m as my diver and Tudor stole me with the pro as my gmt.
A good, honest review. Cheers!
Worst case scenario, you get the SanMartin interpretation of it or their new Pepsi interpretation and be as happy with it as with your "62mas".
Then you can use the cash for another Omega 😊
Lots of people selling their BBPro, it looks like they didnt like the size or thickness of this watch. A mark of nowadays, were nothing last, and we change inmediatly if we dont like something, or we can blame to initially bad buying decisions. Collecting dont mean keeping, but seems there is another way too look the passion for watches. Just my opinion
That watch looked perfect on your beefed out 8+ inch wrist!
Who would have predicted this? LoL....... good luck with the sale.
❤lol so there are keepers and keeper keepers❤ I’ve done this on a few occasions lol❤
looool yeah and I'm sure that there will be a third classification soon enough 😂
if it has a rotateable bezel it's not a explorer ii it's a gmt. It's OK to sell a piece that you thought you'd wear more, but just didn't. I've had a lot of watches. Some of them were expensive and others much cheaper. I only keep two, maybe three at a time. Right now my duo is a tudor black bay 41/omega flightmaster. I have had the flightmaster for more than 15 years and it was the one I just always pick up and wore. Keep the ones that stick and never buy new.
Nice keeper
I love the Pro but my 6 inch wrist won't cooperate. So I just use my iPhone as my GMT.
Core Keeper kinda is a misnomer....Its a keeper or its not....
In the instagram/social media world we live in, coupled with "hot" new releases from so many brands every year, there's no such thing as a keeper.
keeper = might keep it a year
I miss my SINN 104 such a great watch!
its a seriously good watch! if they ever come out with a brushed version or one with a gloos black dial like on the 556i then I'm sold!
The Pro is a good looking watch, but never looked good on my 7.5” wrist… too small and too thick.
I also have the BB Pro. It's a great watch and I can see it being in my collection for a while. But, I do agree that, it is one that I COULD flip if needed. I have been eyeing an IWC Mark XX in Blue and I have always wanted the 16570 Polar, despite it being inferior in just about every way to the BB Pro.
You won’t regret that purchase I sold my bb pro for it and I love it.
If you sold the 300SMP before, you’ll sell it again. It’s been diluted to hell along with all the other Omega models.
But are you going to pick that Steinhart back up tho?? 😅
Oh man I'm trying not to think about that one right now lol! That would be perfect watch to slot into the BB Pro place and take care of my explorer II needs
@@thewatchidiot I'm gonna wait for your "So...I bought back the Steinhart ocean vintage 39 GMT OLKO edition" video 😂😂😂 affordable and feels the slot 😉
@@thewatchidiot it's an awesome watch. I was lucky enough to find one on ebay for essentially msrp. Hard to beat it for the price.
When the Pro did not work for me, I. just kept wearing my OLKO version 39 and have never looked back. Both are homages to one of the greatest Rolexes (in my opinion), and the Steinhart just does it so well.
I own the SSK003 blueberry GMT and one of my favorites as well. For $475 you can’t do better.
Really it’s all not the end of the world. I love watches and have quite a few but the more i look at these videos i begin to feel more shallow. Is this is what we are about there’s war and famine .
I respect your point of view, a combination of not being truly happy/satisfied, the collectors' need of moving forward, and especially the finances behind it. It just doesn't make any sense having 4k parked in a box and not fully enjoying'em. That being said, I just don't understand why people like Seikos so much or the cult following. I get it, but never understood. Never did, never will. Above US$500 for a Seiko? No, thank you. Not even above US$250. Also, their designs are simply awful. The materials they use look so cheap - not by value, but like scraped together, their lack of identity and whatever goes. I always considered them a phase to grow out of as ok, you are a teenager and you get a Seiko your first automatic with a bracelet to interchange with your G-Shock thoughout the week. They are so overrated. Dunno, that's how I have always felt about them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've toyed with buying a Tudor but I just can't bring myself to do it...I think is a good daily if you own a Rolex but Tudor will never truly be a showpiece watch...it will forever but in Rolex shadow, plus they are a bit boring 😴
Sooo uhhh yeah annnd yeah
looool all i know is that the Seamaster is my creme fraiche
I don’t really understand what Tudor is trying to accomplish with the design of the Black Bay Pro. An industrial looking mishmash that has me asking pro for what? It’s like Tudor couldn’t decide if they wanted to make it a diver, gmt or a field watch and just slapped something together that vaguely resembled a Rolex Explorer 2 on a fake rivet bracelet. Meh get the Omega not another bland homage clone. 😂
So basically...it's too thick 😊
it was too thick from the start!!😂
The Seamaster looks like 1000 times better on your wrist than all the rest of the watches you just showed combined together. No joke, looks like made for you :D
The very ugly thing on this watch are the bracelet rivets...
Yeah for me they arent too bad but the rivets arent ideal for sure. I really wish they put the Ranger bracelet on the BB Pro
Are you serious. Starting to think videos are all about content.
Yes they are. The guy is not a serious collector 🤫
Excuses … excuses to sell the watch and buy another watch, we create all these excuses in our heads to justify the itch to buy another watch, no one needs a $4k automatic watch to tell the time when traveling, you already have a phone and a $100 gshock with 30 stored cities will tell you all you need, it’s just that new watch itch, the addiction.
Cheers
keeper watch is meaningless to a flipper
First
Quick fingers!
Didn’t last too long
Yeah if only the seamaster didnt exist or i had more money lol!
@@thewatchidiot agree my friend. Own the smp and yeah I need more more watch budget
The watch is boring. We get it. The seiko 5 blows it out of the water in looks and wearability.
Yeah the hollow end links really set it off lol
core keepers.....weirdo
Its not a keeper.
Who cares
Thank god. The BB Pro sucks dillz & the SMP IS GOD TIER at the price point.
Too thiccccccc
Buddy, it had nothing to do with the watch. You just wanted to buy something new because you’re a shopaholic.
Keeper is a pretty closed definition. A watch you don’t sell - and ‘keep’. So this was never a keeper. You literally bought it 5 minutes ago. No Tudor will ever be a keeper. Homage brand.
Pelagos aside - well the OG pelly and not the silly 39.
Get the Sinn. Immense
Did you respond to your own comment? Cringe.
@@JackoWillMakeLives-loveu that’s me told. I’m so embarrassed. Whatever will I do now I’ve been called out as cringe online by a stranger. I will re-evaluate my entire being and do better - thank you for your service sir.
What a douchey comment
@@drdesign6886good to see you learned your lesson 😉
A man stick's to his word 😡 unsubscribed,.,.,,...,only joking i don't care what you do ha
I really dislike the Black Bay Pro. Too thick, and the yellow on the dial is reminiscent of urine. Horrible. Tudor (and the Rolex overlords) are laughing at customers. When the "easily-swayed" get over the hype, they'll see it what it is - an ugly piece.
“32 days wearing; it’s a keeper”. 3 months later. “It’s not a core keeper”. 🫠