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11:24am 02/17/2019 0 1

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The latest collection is this Tudor Ranger . Starting in the early 1960s, Tudor also had in the catalogue a watch fitted with an “Explorer-like” dial and sharing the same pioneer / exploration concept. It was named the Ranger and, like the Submariners made by Tudor, it was a more affordable version of the Rolex edition (to make it really short) . However, when it comes to go over the history of this watch, things get clearly… unclear. In fact, everything starts with a story similar to the one for the Rolex Explorer. As you can discover here, the Explorer was not the watch worn by Hillary and Norgay for Everest exploration. They brought with them a ref. 6098 “Pre-Explorer“. For Tudor, the same kind of story can be told. The Tudor Ranger, in its known shape (with Arabic numerals on a black dial) was not a watch worn as such for exploration. However, it has been created after Tudor experienced some of its watches in extremely difficult conditions. In the early 1950s, Great Britain missioned 30 military and civilian scientists to explore Greenland – the British North Greenland Expedition or BNGE (1952-54). Part of their equipment were 26 non-modified Tudor Oyster Prince 7809. tudor-7809-BNGE Major Homard Photo: Jason Heaton for Hodinkee These 26 watches had to face the harsh conditions of base-camp “North Ice”, where scientists recorded the lowest temperature ever – minus 66 Celsius – and went up to 77 degrees north latitude. Hans Wilsdorf knew already the power of “marketing” and, just like he did with the Rolex Explorer and Everest exploration, Tudor used BNGE as a promotion for the brand, and issued ads titled “The Tudor Oyster Prince roughs it in Greenland.” Over the 26 watches received by the crew, all seemed to be lost. However, recently, Major Desmond Homard, 93, found back its own watch, hidden in the back of his kitchen drawer . This is certainly where the Tudor Ranger found its roots . - by Monochrome Watches

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