For the 2025 season of the Tour de France which began yesterday, Tudor sponsored team led by Team Principal Fabian Cancellara is now racing in the Tour. And to celebrate, Tudor releases the Pelagos FXD Yellow.
Press Release information with commentary in italics.
New: Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono Yellow – viva le tour!
The Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono Yellow Ref. 25827KNJN retails at EUR 5,500. Limited Edition of 300 pieces. Number 7 is reserved for Fabian Cancellera.
Commentary
The Tour de France started the 2025 season yesterday, July 5 with the grande depart from Lille Métropole. Stage 1 was won by Philip Jasperson who will go into Stage 2 today wearing yellow. The yellow jersey, or Maillot Jaune, is the jersey worn by the leader of the tour on any given day of the 21 days of racing around France.
Tudor began its professional cycling journey by partnering former multiple Olympic, World Champion and Classics winner, Fabian Cancallera, (two Olympic medals, four World Titles, seven Monument Classic wins, and more to his name). We rode with the team when they visited Singapore in 2023.
The Tudor Pro Cycling team began as a Pro Continental Team in 2022, and qualified for the Giro d’Italia in 2023 and again in 2024 as a wild card entry because they were the main sponsors for the Italian tour. They released a Pelagos FXD Pink in 2023 and again when they raced in the Giro in 2024. They made it the to the Tour de France in March 2025, also with a wild card entry.
The novelty is the Pelagos FXD Yellow, essentially a new colour-way for the Pelagos FXD. The case is 43mm black matte carbon composite with fixed bars. Yellow accents mark the tachymeter and the chronograph counters as a nod to the maillot jaune of the TdF leader’s jersey. The yellow accent is repeated as a line across the fabric strap.
The movement remains the Breitling manufactured Cal. MT5813 with COSC certification.
KEY POINTS
- 43mm black matt-finished carbon composite case with fixed strap bars
- Fixed bezel with 60-minute graduation
- Cycling-specific tachymeter scale on dial
- Black matt dial with luminescent ceramic composite monobloc applied hour markers and yellow accents
- Manufacture Calibre MT5813 certified by the Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC) with a hairspring in silicon and a 70-hour power reserve
- “Snowflake” hands, one of the hallmarks of the TUDOR divers’ watches introduced in 1969, with Grade X1 Swiss Super-LumiNova® luminous material
- One-piece technical fabric strap in black with matching hardware
Release details
2016 was the last year that Fabian Cancellara competed in France. Now in 2025, he’s returning to the absolute pinnacle of professional cycling not as a rider—but as a team owner. To celebrate his exceptional record during past years he’ll be wearing a touch of yellow on his wrist, a brand new Pelagos FXD Chrono produced in extremely limited quantities.
Fabian Cancellara has a special relationship with the most storied cycling event in the world, having led the race — or worn the yellow jersey as cycling afficionados say — for a total of 29 days, not to mention eight stage victories. His return to France this year as a team owner running a team that was simply an idea three years ago points to the powerful notion that progress doesn’t happen by accident. It’s a product of commitment and consistency. On his wrist is the Pelagos FXD Chrono “Yellow”, a totem to his days battling France’s most challenging roads in the brutal summer heat. You could also say it’s his lucky charm when facing challenges to come. Just 300 numbered examples of this watch will be produced. Number 7 is already spoken for, as that’s Fabian Cancellara’s signature number.
Professional cycling isn’t for the faint of heart. Riders’ bodies and minds are pushed to the absolute limit with every pedal stroke, not to mention inherent dangers of the sport. A watch engineered with professional cycling in mind must withstand these extreme demands, while remaining easy to operate. It’s no secret that the fastest bikes are made of carbon fibre, and that’s why TUDOR has opted for a carbon composite case for the new chronograph, designed with daring riders in mind. Titanium elements enhance the watch’s robustness, as it will certainly face the unpredictable conditions of the road.
It’s not only the durability of the watch that was considered during its design phase. The watch also had to be genuinely useful while riding. It’s typical for the tachymetric scale of a chronograph to be calibrated for automobile speeds; indeed, many TUDOR chronographs feature a scale typically associated with motorsport. What makes the Pelagos FXD Chrono “Yellow” exceptional is that its scale is tailored to the speeds that cyclists can sustain. The chronograph scale wraps around the dial in a spiral, allowing cyclists to read average speeds at a glance. The tachymeter function on the Pelagos FXD Chrono “Yellow” has been specifically engineered for cycling.
RACE READY DIALS
The matt black dial with yellow accents puts legibility first and foremost and is reminiscent of the colours associated with the most challenging race in cycling. The signature square hour-markers and “Snowflake” hands, designed back in the sixties by TUDOR to offer larger luminous surfaces and thus improve legibility, are fashioned from luminescent ceramic composite for optimal legibility in challenging conditions. Around the circumference of the dial, printed on a 45°-angled rehaut, is a recalibrated tachymeter with inner ring focused on the speeds cyclists reach.
A FABRIC STRAP FOR RIDING
The single-piece fabric strap is one of the hallmarks of TUDOR, which in 2010, became one of the first watchmaking brands to offer this option. Woven in France on 19th century Jacquard looms by the Julien Faure company in the St-Etienne region, the strap’s manufacturing quality, robustness and comfort on the wrist are unmatched. For the Pelagos FXD models, a highly technical strap construction was developed by TUDOR and Julien Faure. Made up of a 22mm black jacquard-woven technical fabric with a yellow stripe and a traditional buckle, it’s perfect for putting in time on the bike.
MANUFACTURE CHRONOGRAPH CALIBRE MT5813
The Manufacture Calibre MT5813, powering the Pelagos FXD Chrono, displays hours, minutes, seconds, chronograph and date functions. It also bears the matt finish typical of TUDOR Manufacture Calibres and comes complete with a signature tungsten openwork monobloc rotor.
Boasting a “weekend-proof” 70-hour power reserve and a silicon balance spring, the Manufacture Chronograph Calibre MT5813 is certified by the Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC), with its performance exceeding the standards set by this independent institute at -2 and +4 seconds’ variation per day, tested on every fully assembled chronograph. A high-performance movement, it was crafted in the purest watchmaking tradition, with a column wheel mechanism and vertical clutch. In line with TUDOR’s philosophy of, it ensures extraordinary robustness and reliability, guaranteed by the array of extreme tests applied to all TUDOR products.
Derived from the Manufacture Calibre Breitling 01 chronograph, with a high-precision regulating organ developed by TUDOR and exclusive finishes, this movement is the result of a lasting collaboration between the two brands.
Tudor Pelagos FXD Chrono Yellow Specifications
CASE 43mm black carbon composite case with matt finish, 13.2mm thick BEZEL 60-minute scale, fixed WINDING CROWN Titanium screw-down crown with the TUDOR shield in relief PUSHERS Titanium, direct-action DIAL Black, matt, yellow accents on the chronograph counters and tachymeter scale CRYSTAL Domed sapphire crystal WATERPROOFNESS Waterproof to 100m (330 ft) BRACELET Single-piece black fabric strap with yellow stripe
MOVEMENT Manufacture Calibre MT5813 with chronograph function * Self-winding mechanical chronograph movement with bidirectional rotor system POWER RESERVE Approximately 70 hours PRECISION Swiss Chronometer officially certified by the COSC (Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute) FUNCTIONS Hour and minute hands at the centre * Chronograph seconds at the centre * Chronograph 45-minute counter at 3 o’clock * Small seconds hand at 9 o’clock * Instantaneous date at 6 o’clock with rapid adjustment without non-correction range * Stop-seconds for precise time setting OSCILLATOR Variable inertia balance, micro-adjustment screw * Non-magnetic silicon balance spring * Frequency: 28,800 beats/hour (4 Hz) TOTAL DIAMETER 30.4mm THICKNESS 7.23mm JEWELS 41 jewels
