Tudor Pelagos FXD
On 1 October 2026, a U.S. Navy officer serving with C3F, Commander, Third Fleet, in San Diego, was promoted to Commander. Seventeen years in. A "perfectly executed" Tudor Pelagos FXD marks the occasion. "Will always remember this day when I wear this watch." What watch did you get to mark a promotion? If you have a wrist shot from somewhere that matters, submit at the link in bio. Tempus Est Potentia.
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Tudor Pelagos FXD
The Pelagos FXD first appeared in 2021, built with the French Navy's combat divers, with fixed bars machined into the case so the strap cannot come off a lug. In September 2023 Tudor released it in black as a tribute to a different navy. Tudor says the U.S. Navy issued its diving watches for decades starting in the late 1950s, and its Submariners appear in Navy diving manuals and supply catalogs into the 2000s.
The black FXD is a 42mm titanium case, 12.75mm thick, rated to 200 metres. Inside is the Manufacture calibre MT5602, a COSC certified chronometer with a 70 hour power reserve. The ceramic bezel switched from the blue model's countdown scale to a conventional timing scale.
U.S. Third Fleet
Third Fleet is headquartered ashore at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, where it moved from the command ship USS Coronado in 2003. Its area covers roughly fifty million square miles of the eastern and northern Pacific, including the Bering Sea, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.