Rolex Submariner vs. Tudor Heritage Black Bay – COMPARISON

Today we’re going to be comparing the Rolex Submariner Ceramic 114060, on your left, with the Tudor Heritage Black Bay 79220N, on your right. We’re gonna compare the pricing, the case, the bezel, the dial, the bracelet, the buckle , and the movement.

Comparison Transcript: Submariner vs Tudor Black Bay

Welcome to JazTime. Today we’re going to be comparing the Rolex Submariner Ceramic 114060, on your left, with the Tudor Heritage Black Bay 79220N, on your right. We’re gonna compare the pricing, the case, the bezel, the dial, the bracelet, the buckle.

How much can I find these watches for?

We match prices, offer free shipping, and a one year warranty. Now let’s go ahead and start with the price. At JazTime you can buy the Submariner for $6,700, and the retail price is $7,500. The Tudor Heritage, on your right, retails for $3,495, and you can buy it at JazTime for $3,100. So the price difference here is a lot. It’s about $3,000 difference in price. As promised, I’m going to go through the differences, and compare each one.

Dial Comparison: Rolex Submariner vs Tudor Black Bay

So let’s start with comparing the dials. Now the Rolex Submariner, here, has a maxi dial. It has a black dial which is the same as you see here, but the black dial, here, does not have this matte look to it. And it also a maxi dial with luminous hour markers and white gold surrounds. Now let’s compare that to the Tudor 79220. The patina on it is darker, as you see. It also has luminous hour markers, and they’re about the same size, but it has a much larger hand, in fact it’s called a snow flake hand, that allows it to be read at night. Comparing these two dials side by side, they’re approximately the same width, or the diameter, but you’ll notice that on the Submariner the case is 40 millimeter, whereas the Tudor Black Bay Heritage has a 41 millimeter case. Can you guys see the difference? Not so much. It’s a one millimeter difference. Very hard to see.

Bezel Comparison: Ceramic Bezel vs Aluminum Bezel

Now moving on to the bezel. The bezel on both of these are a unidirectional bezel. On the Submariner 11460, it has a ceramic bezel, as opposed to the Tudor Black Bay, that has a anodized aluminum bezel. Now on the Submariner, you can see the ceramic bezel is shinier, it doesn’t ever fade, it’s very, very hard, and it doesn’t scratch, but it’s also $3,000 more expensive. The Tudor, on the other hand, has a aluminum anodized bezel. In terms of function they both do the same thing. They calculate elapsed time.

You put the pearloid at the minute hand, and you simply allow it time to progress. They’re both unidirectional, which allows you to calculate elapsed time when you’re diving, and to always have a safety buffer, and to never have less time underwater, to always have more time underwater. So for example, let’s you have been diving for 10 minutes. The watch will look something like this. Notice how I can’t turn it back the other direction, so it’ll never say five minutes when I’ve actually dived for 10, and that’s why it’s unidirectional. That same feature is on the Tudor Black Bay. At 10 minutes, I can not turn the bezel the other direction. Both of them have the same feature. The Submariner has a ceramic bezel and the Tudor has a matte anodized aluminum bezel.

Case Comparison: 904L Steel vs 316L AISI Steel

Now moving on to the case, the Rolex Submariner uses a super case, it’s a Monobloc stainless steel case, and as I told you it has a 40 millimeter diameter. The Tudor also has a Monobloc case, but it uses a 41 millimeter case. Now if look at the side by side, they don’t look that much different, they’re only 1 millimeter difference.

Bracelet Comparison: Rolex Submariner vs Tudor Black Bay

Now let’s move on to the bracelet. The bracelet, as you can see here, side by side. The bracelet on your left is using an Oyster band. It’s a bit thinner. It uses 904L steel, which is the best steel, it’s the hardest steel, it’s used in chemical and airline industries. And the one on you right, the Tudor, uses also a very nice bracelet, but it doesn’t use the same 904L steel, but it’s also $3,000 less expensive. Now moving on to the bracelet– I’m sorry the buckle. The buckle on your left is the Submariner buckle, and that uses a folding Oyster safety clasp, meaning it has this extra buckle right here that allows it to be safety clasped in, so if you’re doing sports. The Tudor also uses this safety clasp, so that when you’re doing sports it doesn’t accidentally open.

Clasp Comparsion: Rolex Submariner vs Tudor Black Bay

Now I’m going to open them up, both so that you can see. The Submariner opens like that. Interestingly the Submariner has a built in mechanism to change the bracelet size without actually using any tools, and it allows for up to 20 millimeters of play, this is at the open position. If I want to change it to make it smaller, I simply pull out and push to the right. Push back in and I’ve changed it by 20 millimeters, or up to 20 millimeters. Pull it out, push it all the way in, pull it all the way out, and I’ve changed it 20 millimeters. Why might you want to do that? Well this is diver’s watch, which means sometimes you wear the watch over your wetsuit, and you want to have an extension. So this allows for that without any tools.

Now on the Black Bay Heritage, you don’t have that. You have a safety clasp so that when you’re doing sports it still opens like this. But on the back there is no adjustment. You must actually use a tool to make the adjustment, and as you can see here, you use a pin, you push it in, you pull it out, and that allows for an adjustment, but you must have a tool. So that’s a difference in the buckle. Shown side by side. That’s the buckle.

Movement Comparison: Rolex Submariner vs Tudor Black Bay

Now let’s move on to the movement here. Now on the Rolex we have a 3130 movement. It has approximately 48 hour power reserve, and a paramagnetic blue Parachrom hairspring oscillator. It’s precise to plus minus two seconds a day after casing. And it’s self-winding, mechanical, and perpetual. The movement is made in-house by Rolex themselves. They don’t outsource any of it. And it’s encased behind this here: a solid case back which you cannot see. Now for the Tudor, it also has an in-house movement, and it has a MT5602 in-house COSC certified movement. It’s in-house meaning it’s not outsourced to anybody else, and it has a power reserve of 70 hours. That’s an extra 20 hours. That means you can put this watch on on Friday, put it on your nightstand and not pick it up til Monday and have it still work. Now moving on. Shown side by side, we’ve gone through each one of the pieces.

Comparison on the wrist: Rolex Submariner vs Tudor Black Bay

I’m gonna try it on, on the wrist, for you guys to see at home. There’s the watch on the wrist, and the Black Bay Heritage as well. Now if you like this video, click on the Youtube button and hit subscribe. As I told you at the beginning of this video, if you like the Heritage, and you wanna spend somewhere in the $3,100 range, well this Heritage might just be the watch for you. It doesn’t break the bank, it still has many of the great qualities that the Submariner has, but at a much more affordable price. If you wanna splurge and buy the watch of you dreams, the Submariner, one of the most iconic watches of all time, well here it is, JazTime sells it for $6,700, or the retail price of $7,500. Check us out there, we offer one year warranty free shipping, and a low price guarantee. We hope to see you there soon.