Forget Wild Geese, Tudor Has Us Chasing Blue Flamingos

  • Swiss manufacture Tudor has released the Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo, a funky follow up to the Black Bay Chrono Pink that debuted last year
  • The Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo features a vibrant turquoise dial inspired by summers in South Beach
  • It’s powered by the calibre MT5813, an in-house COSC-certified automatic movement with a 70-hour power reserve

Overnight, there was an uptick in search traffic querying whether blue flamingos exist. Not merely a subset of wildly misguided ornithologists, this search traffic can be attributed to the release of the Tudor Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo. Tudor has long stepped out of the shadow of its older brother Rolex, dropping a slew of releases that are covetable hits in their own right, rather than a poor man’s alternative to the Crown. 

Case in point: last year’s Black Bay Chrono Pink, released in collaboration with David Beckham’s football team Inter Miami. Now, the Swiss manufacture is back with an equally vibrant follow up, the Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo. Despite some speculation that this shade references the Inter Miami kit, this timepiece is in no way affiliated with the football team (although it has been spotted on its owner—and Tudor ambassador—David Beckham’s wrist). 

Instead, the Tudor Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo draws inspiration from quintessential South Beach style. And while blue flamingos don’t actually exist (yes, I was one of the people who had to check with Google), if you were asked to picture ‘flamingo pink’ and then ‘flamingo blue’, there’s a good chance you’d come up with this exact shade of turquoise. There’s something about pink and blue that just feels right, with these exact shades conjuring up images of Miami Vice, roadside motels with neon signs, and pink Cadillacs driving under blue skies. So while the Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo may have some birdwatchers scratching their heads, when it comes to colour paletting, we know exactly what Tudor means.

Aside from the vibrant dial shade, the newcomer is otherwise a standard issue Black Bay Chrono. That means it clocks in with a case size of 41mm and features a box style sapphire crystal over the dial, surrounded by a fixed black aluminium bezel with a tachymeter scale. On the dial, the turquoise (sorry flamingo) blue shade provides an apt contrast for the black subdials and white luminescent hour markers. Tudor’s signature snowflake-shaped hands remain, also coated in Super-LumiNova. Like the Black Bay Chrono Pink before it, the Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo comes on a five-link jubilee-style bracelet, which is fitted with a T-Fit micro-adjustment clasp.

The Tudor Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo is powered by the calibre MT5813, an in-house COSC-certified automatic movement based on the Breitling B01.

The Black Bay Chrono Blue Flamingo is a non-limited release priced at $8800AUD, and is available to explore via the Tudor webstore.

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Words by T. Angel