Blue Skies and Blue Dials - The Audemars Piguet Replica 58 Navy Blue

The Audemars Piguet Replica has been part of the wristwatch landscape now for eight years. And for each one of those years, Tudor has delighted devotees with new ways to enjoy the snowflake hands and no-crown-guard cased dive watches.

In fact, the Black Bay has even stepped out of its comfort zone and become a chronograph and a GMT watch, but maintaining its signature hands and no nonsense sports watch aesthetic. In 2018, six years after the first Black Bay was unveiled, Tudor gave the world the Black Bay 58 (BB58) and with that launch, the brand entered the world of waiting lists and grey market premiums.

Now, as we begin to see blue skies through the clearing clouds of the global pandemic and mandated lockdowns, the BB58 has had a blue makeover and it’s exactly what all Tudor Collectors were looking for…

The 39mm Black Bay Fifty-Eight fitted on one of Tudor's excellent fabric straps (Roger Dubuis Replica Watches)

The ‘58’ in the BB58 refers to the year that Tudor launched its landmark 200-meter depth rated dive watch, the magnificent reference 7924. A 39mm steel Oyster case, oversize 8mm winding crown and bi-rotating bezel gave the watch an imposing presence and it became the go to timepiece for a number of important navies around the world, including the United States, Argentina and most notably the French National Navy, the Marine Nationale.