A Week On The Wrist: The New Tudor Heritage Black Bay Black Reference 79220N, By John Mayer
Today, with the release of the Black Bay Black, Tudor has launched the third variant in its Black Bay Heritage collection, and it’s one that seats itself firmly in the center of the highly successful line of “heritage” pieces. Since the burgundy bezel version of this watch was covered so well and in-depth earlier this year by Jack Forster, I’ll fly over some of the points he detailed with some basics. 1 OF 25 Here’s what I’ve told everyone who asked me what was on my wrist over the past week, and it’s the main thrust of this column: for just over $3,000, you can be a watch guy with the best of them. The Heritage Black Bay, though not based entirely on any one reference number, is a loving homage to Tudor dive watches of the past, and by association, to Rolex Submariners, from which Tudor originally took its DNA. And while the burgundy (and later a blue bezel) version were impressive throwbacks to a bygone era of watch desig

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My new 26470st I series from Patrick (OCROLEXGUY) dealing with him was a pleasure... I'm going to pick up my new bracelet this week too!

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Anyone else a maxi case convert?
For the longest time, I couldn't get on board with the 6-digit maxi cases. I thought the lugs were too thick and the crown guards were too large. But that opinion was based mainly on pictures, and the handful of times I tried on maxi cases at an AD. Because of that outlook, my first two Rolex watches were the 14060M and 16710 (which are absolutely great).But that all changed about 3-4 weeks ago when I picked up a BLNR. Despite the maxi case, I couldn't resist the beautiful bezel and figured if I couldn't get used to the maxi case, the BLNR would be easy to sell. Now that I've had a few weeks of wrist time with the maxi case, it doesn't bother me one bit and I actually really like it. The difference in lug thickness between the cases seems much larger in pictures than it does in real life. Anyone else here start out opposed to the maxi cases and now your opinion has changed?

Fit and finish/Quality
I have been reading a lot of articles lately comparing high end watches but none seem to answer a question I have. Most lists put PP, AP and others at the top with Rolex coming in a few rungs lower. (some lists a lot lower) I understand complications and rarity and market and all of that, but comparing simply fit and finish how does Rolex stack up against the top dogs? I am talking really about cases, dials bracelets and so forth , the stuff you can see without removing parts