T UD O R
Tudor has reestablished itself as a watch of choice among watch lov-
ers not quite ready to jump up to the Rolex price points while offering a
lot of quality for the money. Well made and worth your time, Tudor has
a fiduciary argument on sports watches beyond the brand’s relatively
recent revival. With an active and avid collectors community supporting
the brand’s return, the Tudor name has been rightly been reinvigorated
for today’s up and coming watch enthusiast. With most of the collection
focused on clean sports designs in the $2,000-$5,000 category, Tudor is
fast becoming a watch of choice among the cognoscenti.
TUTI M A
As a vertically integrated company, Tutima’s Germanic lineage evokes a heritage that is
askew of the assumptive preconceptions of “Swiss” authenticity and evokes a deeper
reflection of its own Germanic roots in Glashutte Germany. Tutima’s legitimacy is
once again highlighted in the Tempostop Flyback Chronograph. Wholly designed and
manufactured by Tutima Manufacture, this watch incorporates an interval timer that
allows for instant re-setting to zero of any timed event and also precludes the possibility
of damaging your watch from pushing the buttons out of the typical start, stop, reset
sequence. Functionality aside, the Tempostop combines the austere purity endemic
to German watches while instilling an engineered confidence in the well designed and
finished components visible through the sapphire back.
Z E N IT H
Zenith is clearly at the height of their game in the traditional watch
making world. Their Defy Lab pushes the boundaries of quasi-
mechanics in one hand by creating a monolithic oscillator beating at
an astounding 108,000 oscillations per minute, while they have also
conquered the effects of gravity with their Defy Zero G. Rotate this
watch in any direction and the gimbal mounted escapement keeps
the balance wheel in the same flat position - and perpendicular to the
pull of gravity regardless of the watch’s orientation.
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