The ultimate Tudor watch collection debate ft. Adrian Barker becomes a 3-WATCH THROW DOWN

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Tudor. Three watches. Two grown men. One Time+Tide London Discovery Studio and its Tudor Library & Lounge. Zero mercy. Andrew McUtchen (Founder, Time+Tide) and Adrian Barker (Founder, Bark & Jack) — two people who have spent more time talking about Tudor than is probably healthy — go head-to-head in the brand-on-brand edition of the 3-Watch Throw Down. The rules are simple: build your ultimate three-watch Tudor collection from the full spread laid out in the Time+Tide London Discovery Studios’ Tudor Library & Lounge. The execution? Considerably messier.

Adrian opens with the nuclear option — the Pelagos Ultra, a 1,000-metre dive watch so overengineered it makes F1 cars look modest. Andrew retaliates with a hidden card: the Dune White Ranger 36, despite once being a Tudor Ranger hater. Since the beige beauty that is the Ranger 36 Dune White dropped, he’s since revised that take. Loudly. Although, in his defence, it was more that the 40mm size case just was not doing it for him. When the 36mm case dropped, everything clicked right into place.

In between the banter, there’s real watch talk. The snowflake hand’s 27% visibility advantage that redeemed the Pelagos. The Black Bay’s slow-burn case improvement over the slab-sided 41. The Black Bay Chrono’s elegant oddity in a lineup built on tool-watch muscle. And a broader conversation about why Tudor keeps landing — the brand’s knack for listening, for making watches that spend their budget on performance rather than polish, and for building something that feels less like a corporation and more like a gang you actually want to be in.

Plus: Adrian’s Christopher Ward collab, the vulnerability of launching a limited edition, and the inevitable debate over whether black-on-black is Captain Boring or secretly the most versatile watch you’ll ever own.

Now it’s over to you. Who wins this Tudor edition of 3-Watch Throw Down? Andrew? Captain Boring? Vote for your winner in the comments. We’re reading every one.