Since its launch, the Pelagos has been the professional dive watch offering from the modern iteration of Tudor. The brand has been smashing it out of the park year after year with the Black Bay family, a watch that can go to depths that will be more than ample for 99 percent of divers. However, when it comes to professional or tool watches, the Pelagos dares to go deeper as a watch that can be used by saturation divers, thanks to its gas escape valve. Whilst the Black Bay has spawned an entire family of watches, the Pelagos has been the quiet sibling, making do with a blue makeover and a vintage-inspired “destroy” iteration known as the Left Hand Drive. Now the LHD is joined by the FXD, and the history of the relation française is official.
At the beginning of the 1970s, Tudor began delivering one of the most iconic dive watches ever made, the blue “snowflake” Submariner. These watches, reference 9401, were no-date Subs with vibrant blue dials and special hands. The snowflake hands were developed in response to the Marine Nationale (MN) divers’ request for watches with more legible hands. A dive
