Pelagos FXD Chrono Alinghi Red Bull Racing Edition
A robust tool watch built for the challenges of the sea. Blending modern materials with practical functionality, it’s ready for adventure without compromising style.
This is the chronograph version of the FXD architecture, which is a harder brief than it sounds — dive tools and chronographs pull in opposite directions, one wants a bare dial, the other wants three subdials. Tudor resolves it in carbon at 43mm, still 200m rated, with a date window this time, unlike the base FXD. Blue dial, blue fabric strap, and the carbon case is the detail that matters most on my sheet: it keeps a chronograph movement's added case depth from turning into added wrist weight. It scores well on legibility despite the extra complication, less on the pure-minimalism axis the base FXD wins outright.
