Vintage has been a dominant trend in recent years. There have been a number of great vintage watches released this year, but if I had to choose what I think is one of the best and most popular entry-level vintage releases to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the North Greenland Expedition, the new Ranger Ranger watch hit the market in July. Next, we'll talk about its jacquard strap style through live photos, watch model number: TUDOR Ranger M79950-0003.

When we talk about the Tudor Ranger, we inevitably have to mention the history of the Oyster Prince, Tudor's first self-winding, water-resistant wristwatch, which the brand sponsored on an expedition to northern Greenland, England, in the early 1950s. At the time, at Tudor's request, the expedition also recorded data on the watch's performance in extreme conditions, bringing back important information for subsequent improvements. This was the forerunner of the Tudor Ranger, which took shape in the 1960s, thanks to its proven performance and the "Ranger" concept registered by its founder, Hans Wilsdorf, which added an element of adventure to his watches. I can roughly distinguish between two types of vintage watches on the watch market,TUDOR Ranger M79950-0002 those that continue the tradition of building pieces and those that are newly made in the vintage style. And then I think most watch owners, like me, prefer the Ranger style vintage watches that have their own history backing them.

The watch is made of 316L steel in the process of shell, the size can be adjusted from 41 mm on our generation to 39 mm, is the same size as the Biwan 1958, in the past two years, the influence of the trend of small watch diameter can really be some development of the warming up, various companies are constantly launching different sizes of moderate size more suitable for wearing the watch, and the thickness of the new Ranger for control is also very good, thick as 11 millimeters. The watch overall case by the frosted process to create a matte effect, more texture, and the edges are not angular some of the details of life, the use of polished, more prominent watch line design aesthetics, two kinds of teaching effects as well as interlacing also enrich the watch level.

The watch was coated during the shooting

On the other side of the watch, there is a screw-in crown, the top of the crown decorated with embossed Tudor Rose logo. The entire watch is water resistant to 100 meters.

The watch has a matte black dial with striking Arabic numeral hour markers at four o'clock and a grained effect on closer inspection of the dial. While continuing the classic shape of the Ranger, a professional timepiece designed for clear readability, TUDOR has also made some new changes to the details, such as changing from the previous generation's all-red seconds hand to a metal hand with a natural color, retaining the red design only at the end of the seconds hand, and changing the brand logo at 12 o'clock from the original vintage rose logo to the TUDOR shield logo that is the most common nowadays. The RANGER logo at 6 o'clock is also new, and all these details add up to make the new watch pair more simple to the eye than its predecessor.

The luminescence is not an important measurement for an adventure watch. The watch's time scale hands are filled with a beige luminescent material. The photo above shows the luminescence, which is very bright and meets the outdoor use of the explorer, but also to consider the extreme daylight up and down the mountain and go to the cave of the extremely harsh use scenarios.

The watch has a closed back and houses a Tudor mainspring MT5402 bidirectional oscillating weight self-winding mechanical control movement with a 26mm construction. The temperature of this movement often give you an introduction, 70 hours of kinetic reserve to a weekend table level, although the COSC certification, but Tudor has been striving for excellence, the pursuit of -2 to +4 seconds of daily error, these issues are the movement's highlights, and we'll take the daily error in general, it is true that the environment after the actual test, two years ago to show you equipped with the same movement 1958 Navy Blue, the daily error measurements Down the student is 2 seconds faster.

The watch comes with a green, red and yellow jacquard eulian, provided by Dieter's partner Falls, who has been working for the company for 12 years, and its best feature is that TUDOR 1926 M91351-0002will use the 19th century jacquard loom to weave the watch strap, so the watch strap is very comfortable and soft to the touch, in addition to the company is also the supplier of weaving materials for Chanel, LV, Dior, Gucci and other first-line big brands, the Quality don't have to worry about this.

Summing up:Overall, the reason I personally think this Tudor New Ranger is the best vintage watch of the year is that it is simple, practical, classic, and has its own historical basis, to borrow from my watch brothers who I particularly agree with. And when we look at the Tudor New Ranger model in its entirety, it still puts the two key points of Tudor's watchmaking heritage at the forefront; strong performance and a reasonable price. The jacquard woven strap we present to you today is commonly available for $20,500, and like the leather-plastic-rubber composite strap, the steel bracelet is available for $22,900. If you like it, try it on at your local official store.