Tudor Caliber MT5601 Complete Guide

Tudor Caliber MT5601 Complete Guide

In recent years, Tudor has invested heavily into developing its own in-house movements. In 2015, Tudor released its first in-house caliber. Since then, the company has released a number of other calibers to join their collection.

One such movement is the Tudor MT5601. ”MT” stands for manufacture Tudor and tells us that it is manufactured by Tudor (in-house)

The Tudor MT5601 is the third movement to be released by Tudor. It was first released at Baselworld 2016 when Tudor’s new bronze version of the Black Bay was released – the Heritage Black Bay Bronze with reference 79250BM.

In Tudor’s own words “This is a variant of the TUDOR Manufacture Calibre developed specifically to equip the Black Bay Bronze model. Slightly larger in diameter and displaying hours, minutes and seconds functions”.

Tudor released the MT5601 because they needed a larger movement for the Black Bay bronze which has a case size of 43mm rather than 41. In the writing moment, the MT5601 is exclusive to the Heritage Black Bay bronze models.

Since the main thing about this movement is its increased size, it’s essentially identical to the standard Black Bay 41 movement, on which it is built, which is named MT5602. 

The Tudor MT5601 is an automatic mechanical movement with a bidirectional rotor that measures 33,8mm in diameter.  It features 25 jewels, and displays hours, minutes, and seconds. Like all Tudor’s manufacture calibers, it is COSC certified and has a power reserve of 70 hours.

Tudor caliber MT5601 Specifications

• Ref: MT5601
• Base: MT5612
• Diameter: 33.8mm
• Power reserve: 70 hours
• Frequency 28800
• Jewels: 25
• Certified chronometer