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PASSION
IS IN THE
DETAILS
WHEN IT COMES TO FINDING THE PERFECT WATCH, IT’S THE FINE — SOMETIMES INVISIBLE — DETAILS THAT MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. FROM FASCINATING HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS TO EXCEPTIONALLY ACCURATE MOVEMENTS, HERE ARE A FEW THAT WON US OVER IN 2022
By Jeremy Freed
Photography by Michael Kazimierczuk (Impossible Studios)
Prop Styling by James Reiger (Plutino Group) Styling by Haley Dach
Photo Assistant: Levi Hodson
SHARP WATCH
TUDOR RANGER
In 1952, a team of 30 British scientists and Royal Navy officers set out from London for Greenland on a mission to study the region’s weather, geography,
and seismic activity. Each man was equipped with a specialized Tudor watch that would prove indispens- able over the two-year expedition, and the new Ranger traces its ancestry directly back to that timepiece — and the brave explorers who field-tested it. In addition to its daring backstory, the new Ranger comes with an in-house chronometer movement and a textile strap woven on 19th-century Jacquard looms by the Julien Faure company in St-Étienne, France. $3,200
