1926

Presented at Baselworld in 2018, the 1926 collection was created as the most accessible entry point to Tudor's mechanical catalogue, positioned below the Black Bay in terms of price. The name is no accident: it refers directly to 1926, the year in which Hans Wilsdorf registered the "The Tudor" trademark — decades before a company called "Montres TUDOR S.A." existed, from 1946 — thus linking a new product line to the brand's very date of birth.

In terms of design it offers a classic three-hand look, with a seconds counter at 6 o'clock on the more traditional versions, available in four case sizes (28, 36, 39 and 41 mm) in steel or steel and rose gold, and on a brown leather strap, as well as a wide choice of dial colours — black, blue, champagne, grey, white — including versions with diamond-set dials. Like the Royal, it uses ETA/Sellita-based movements rather than manufacture calibres, a choice consistent with its role as an accessible entry to the range.

In the following years the collection expanded with the 1926 Luna, the first moon phase Tudor ever made, broadening the range of complications beyond the simple three-hander. With the brand's centenary falling in 2026, exactly one hundred years after the name was registered in 1926, this collection takes on particular symbolic weight: it is the line whose very name closes the circle with Tudor's origins.