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The TUDOR Pelagos FXD & Pelagos FXD Chrono ‘Alinghi Red Bull Racing Editions’
To celebrate its partnership with Alinghi Red Bull Racing and the America's Cup 2024 race running from August till October, TUDOR unveiled the Pelagos FXD models: a chronograph and a time-only watch inspired by yacht racing. TUDOR also released 4 new watches at the Watches and Wonders 2024 event. With cases made from carbon composite, titanium, and stainless steel and fitted with Manufacture Calibres, these watches embody the daring spirit that is needed to be a contender in the most competitive yacht race in history.
The Pelagos FXD “Alinghi Red Bull Racing Edition” models bring a lot of firsts for TUDOR, and it’s not just about the watches. In 2022, TUDOR teamed up with Alinghi Red Bull Racing, marking their first step into the exciting world of competitive yacht racing. In this sport, which has been around for centuries, winning is all about combining a daring spirit with the latest technology. These watches embody that philosophy, featuring a high-tech carbon composite—a first for TUDOR—along with titanium and stainless steel, the same as what you’d find on an AC75 hydrofoil racing yacht. It is also the first time TUDOR has put a chronograph Calibre into a case with fixed strap bars.
The America’s Cup
The America's Cup is the epitome of sailing excellence, a prestigious regatta that has been captivating audiences for over 170 years and continues to at the America's Cup 2024. It's more than just a race; it's a fierce competition where cutting-edge technology and human skill converge on the high seas. The thrill of the wind in the sails, the strategic manoeuvres, and the sheer elegance of the yachts create a spectacle that's hard to match. The America's Cup race itself is a display of strategy, speed, and precision. Two teams compete in a series of match races, where the two yachts go head-to-head in a test of sailing prowess. The competition is intense, with crews planning every manoeuvre, from the start line to the final buoy.
The Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC75 showcases the best of maritime engineering, using a unique mix of carbon, titanium, and stainless steel to create a hull that practically flies over the water at high speeds. This same dedication to technical excellence is mirrored in the Pelagos FXD models. These watches feature a high-tech carbon composite for the case and bezel insert, making them incredibly light and strong, while titanium is used for the bezel, crown, and pushers, and 316L stainless steel for the case back and movement container. Designed with a 200-meter water-resistant FXD case, which was originally developed for French navy combat divers, these models include fixed lugs and a bidirectional 120-notch rotatable bezel. The bezel uses Swiss Super-LumiNova® Grade X1, a luminous material that shines up to 60% brighter than standard grades after two hours. The bezel is graduated from 60 to 0, perfect for tracking countdowns, especially before the start of a regatta. The result is a distinctive, high-tech mechanical sports watch, complete with the Alinghi Red Bull Racing logo engraved on the case back, highlighting this exciting collaboration.
About the TUDOR Pelagos FXD - Alinghi Red Bull Racing Editions
The Dial
Wearing the same hue as the hull of the AC75, the matte dial puts legibility first and foremost. While both dials are finished in Alinghi Red Bull Racing Team Blue, with a red-tipped second hand, the Chronograph model features red accents around the counters as another nod to the aesthetics of the AC75, namely the red stripes on the hull. On the 45° angled rehaut (space between the edge of the face and the bezel) , between 10 and 2, a subtle “Alinghi Red Bull Racing” mention overarches the dial’s layout. The signature square hour-markers and “Snowflake” hands, designed back in the sixties by TUDOR to offer larger luminous surfaces and thus improve legibility, are fashioned from luminescent ceramic composite for optimal legibility in challenging conditions.
Fabric Strap
The single-piece fabric strap is one of the hallmarks of TUDOR, which in 2010, became one of the first watchmaking brands to offer it with its watches. Woven in France on 19th century Jacquard looms by the Julien Faure company in the St-Etienne region, its manufacturing quality, robustness and comfort on the wrist are unique. For the Pelagos FXD models, a highly technical strap construction was developed by TUDOR and Julien Faure. Made up of a 22 mm “Team Blue” jacquard-woven ribbon with red accents and a titanium “D” buckle with a self-gripping fastening system, it adapts to different wrist sizes and is very comfortable to wear.
Calibre MT5602 - Pelagos FXD
The Manufacture Calibre MT5602, which powers the Pelagos FXD, displays hour, minute and seconds functions. It offers the signature look and feel of TUDOR Manufacture Calibres. Its build is designed to ensure robustness and precision. To do this, the variable inertia balance wheel is maintained by a sturdy traversing bridge with two-point anchoring. This system, together with its non-magnetic silicon hairspring, means the Manufacture Calibre MT5602 is both certified by the COSC and able to function beyond the specification of that standard, that is within a tolerance range of 6 seconds (-2/+4) per day, always tested on every single fully assembled watch. Another notable feature is that the power reserve of the Manufacture Calibre MT5602 is “weekend-proof”; it enables the wearer to take the watch off on a Friday evening and put it back on again on Monday morning without having to wind it. Even if you need a weekend away, your watch does not.
Calibre MT5813 - Pelagos FXD Chrono
The Manufacture Calibre MT5813, powering the Pelagos FXD Chrono, displays hours, minutes, seconds, chronograph and date functions. It also bears the matte finish typical of TUDOR Manufacture Calibres and comes complete with a signature tungsten openwork monobloc rotor. Boasting a “weekend-proof” 70-hour power reserve and a silicon balance spring, the Manufacture Chronograph Calibre MT5813 is certified by the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC), with its performance exceeding the standards set by this independent institute at -2 and +4 seconds’ variation per day, tested on every fully assembled chronograph. A high-performance movement, it was crafted in the purest watchmaking tradition, with a column wheel mechanism and vertical clutch. In keeping with the TUDOR philosophy of quality, it presents extraordinary robustness and reliability, guaranteed by the array of extreme tests applied to all TUDOR products.
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