Tudor Fastrider Blackshield spotted at local AD

[danny]

To all Tudor fans out there, the first few pieces of Fastrider Blackshield have been spotted at a local AD. 3 different designs are available as shown in the pics below. The sleek monobloc high tech ceramic casings of these watches are truly outstanding at these price points.







 

[dpkong]

Oh what colours... my eyes hurt..

[jason_recliner]

Fugly as.

[sidestreaker]

Any wrist-shot? I've seen this in person, but not in Malaysia and they do look great in the flesh. And yes, great value for a ceramic case watch...

[jason_recliner]

You can get a ceramic case watch for about a hundred bucks.  Probably not the same ceramic, sure, but just making the point that there is nothing especially exotic or expensive about ceramics in general.

[danny]

Any wrist-shot? I've seen this in person, but not in Malaysia and they do look great in the flesh. And yes, great value for a ceramic case watch...

Unfortunately I did not take a wrist shot of the watch. I agree with you that it is very good value for a high tech ceramic chronograph from a major brand.

 

[kenji1903]

how much is it retailing for?

[danny]

how much is it retailing for?

15635 RM a piece.

[harkensng]

  thanks for information

[JOS2012]

From the pics the sub dials, hour indices and hands look a bit unrefined..
I wonder how it looks like in the metal….
Furthermore its covered in plastic so lots of distortion and reflection..and with the difficult lighting in the shop doesn't help in making the watch attractive...
The price though is amongst the lowest for a full ceramic cased watch….even housing ETAs..

Thanks for the alert, however..

[shamtv2555]

pic hard to different out the colour

[dpkong]

From the pics the sub dials, hour indices and hands look a bit unrefined..
I wonder how it looks like in the metal….
Furthermore its covered in plastic so lots of distortion and reflection..and with the difficult lighting in the shop, a flash doesn't help in making the watch attractive...
The price though is amongst the lowest for a full ceramic cased watch….even housing ETAs..

Thanks for the alert, however..

And when compared to Rado??

Tudor + ETA = RMxx,xxx

Rado + ETA = RMx,xxx

[JOS2012]

hmmm I said 'amongst the lowest' not the lowest.
When I said that, Rado was not on my mind. In fact Rado is one of those brands that's NEVER on my mind (e.g. of other brands never on my mind….de Grisogono, Van Cleef & Arpels, Jacob & Co, Cvstos, deLaCour, Cuervo y Sobrinos, etc)  where it comes to watches. Note: it took me several minutes to recall these brand names and how they spelt.. a branding issue or a product issue?

Rado is nowhere in the same class as Tudor… their dial/hands finishing leaves much to be desired and movt. wise its the ubiquitous ETA so no diff there as well.(not unless they rework it like IWC/Breitling or use the top grades like Tudor)

My interest in Rado was only recently piqued when they launched their recent ceramic cased watches and I went to check out the watches at Pavilion stand.
I returned the watches not even 5 minutes after using a loupe to check their dials, hands and alignment. The person in charge of QC should be sacked.
My initial sputtering interest has since been totally extinguished and I swore never to waste time on viewing another Rado for a long long time.

I only laud them for their ceramic and previous scratch resistant case technology (was it some diamond thingy in the V series). In my mind they are better off providing 'state of the art'  ceramic or scratch resistant watch cases, not assembling watches…Even some micro brands at a much lower price point do a better job..

I was comparing this Tudor ceramic with the other ceramics like Omega DSOTM, IWC Top Gun (the older 7750 driven version), Chanel J10, etc.
Of coz no point comparing with the APROOs…..

From the pics the sub dials, hour indices and hands look a bit unrefined..
I wonder how it looks like in the metal….
Furthermore its covered in plastic so lots of distortion and reflection..and with the difficult lighting in the shop, a flash doesn't help in making the watch attractive...
The price though is amongst the lowest for a full ceramic cased watch….even housing ETAs..

Thanks for the alert, however..

And when compared to Rado??

Tudor + ETA = RMxx,xxx

Rado + ETA = RMx,xxx

[chrisyen]

i find these 2 new tudors are cool... despite i like their heritage collection, these new watches design are great.

i feel like going to see it real and feel it with my hand. photo like this will not be good enough to tell.

[dpkong]

I've seen them at an AD in Marina Sands and they were not really outstanding. Opinion might change over time though as the raised sub-dial rings are interesting.

[enkil]

Thanks for sharing. I kinda like the orange hands   

[JeepWH]

Thanks for posting, love the orange version, very outstanding.

[Dc]

Blackshied already landed in major retailers ... Saw the The Star paper ad on today.

[noobzpro]

Current pricing still asking for a premium...gotta let it settle down i think 11k rm would be a good price

[infinityws]

saw the big banner near Berjaya Times Square a few days back. Look nice, except for the square "Tudor Geneva" logo. I'm sure they can do a better job than that. The logo looks different from the other ranges from Tudor. I do think standardization especially the logo is important in branding and marketing.

[chrisyen]

yeah ! tudor going aggresive with marketing and AD

so the brand is getting more attention since the success of re entering to US market and also successful of its heritage series of watches

[kenlaw]

Rather go for Rolex.