Bruno.M1
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I'm happy and even better, I'll make a lot of friends happy ;-)
Since quite some time I was looking for a Tudor Black Bay. Not difficult to find, unless you want an ETA based one AND you also decided you only want the BLACK Bezel. Aka the 79220N. Honestly I emailed a lot of Tudor dealers in several countries ( Spain, Portugal, Italy, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, UK) I don't know for sure but I bet I contacted between 20 and 30 of them. Half of them never replied, the other half all gave me the same answer. 'Sorry sir' but we don't have that reference anymore, but we can deliver you the new black bay with the inhouse movement. A few answered they still had an ETA but only the blue or red. But unfortunately I really wanted the black.
Ok no succes, so what about Ebay and chrono24. Now this is strange, I looked several times and almost never one came up for sale. Again, an abundance of red and blue but no black. I believe in the last weeks I saw 2 popping up on chrono 24 and literally within hrs they were sold. I contacted both and both times I was to late .... It just sold sir.
I guess collectors are really hunting them. We know they are rare (rare for being Rolex/Tudor). Made for only 5 months or so. to be precise between 14 october 2016 and Basel so March 2017. But I didn't expect that they were so hard to find. And this makes it even more interesting for me, always nice to try to find one in that case. Had to try harder I guess ...
Until I thought : ' hmmm, what if ...' And sorry but the rest is my little secret 
Anyway, I ordered a lot of them ... and I mean A LOT !! (in fact all I could get)
Without problem I could think of 10-20 watch collector friends I know since many, many years. All of them passionate watch enthusiasts and no flippers ... so let's make all of them happy
So I bet you'll find quite a few happy Black Bay 79220N owners on this forum ( some active members others just lurkers) in the near future
Imo one of the most beautiful sports watches. Is it the well finished case, the gilt dial, the red triangle or something else? But it does look gorgeous
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I'm happy and even better, I'll make a lot of friends happy ;-)
Since quite some time I was looking for a Tudor Black Bay. Not difficult to find, unless you want an ETA based one AND you also decided you only want the BLACK Bezel. Aka the 79220N. Honestly I emailed a lot of Tudor dealers in several countries ( Spain, ...
Congratulations for this rare catch and those gorgeous pictures.
Do you know how many of this specific model have been made in only 5 months? Best wishes Alkiro
less than 3000
Is what I read on many forums and 3000 is nothing for such a brand. But since this is not official I didn't want to mention the number ;-) Another rumor is that they wanted to make the black bezel/red dot to launch the new in-house mouvement but they stil...
A solution and easy way
Sounds like an easy way to get hold of these watches. It takes away the fun of the "hunt" but the trophies make up for that. Have you doubled the number of these watches on the planet? Regards, MTF
Well
I cale acties this old post and deels I never answered The thing is that via my AD I got in contact with the Rolex / Tudor headquarter for my country I could not imagine they still would have some NOS cause I would think they would first sell the old eta ...
Congratulations a superb catch
mine says Hi! I think this will become a cult watch Best Imran ...
Bruno, I’m very happy to belong to your friends circle and extremely thankful for your efforts
This 79220N is indeed very rare and I was scanning Ebay and Chrono24 too for a few months, without success. In my humble opinion I think there are far less made then 3000. I asked a few friend AD’s and most they received in the production period was max 2...
Does the reference number apply to both the steel bracelet and leather strap versions? Are there different references based on the strap?
Are both steel and strap version equally collectible? I think that both were made during its short run. I can’t seem to distinguish between the two in terms of collectibility.
