JUNGLE READY

16th July 2020

Do you have an appetite for destruction? If so, then welcome to the watches that ‘slash’ the competition for hard-rock credentials: shock resistant, encased in toughened steel, ceramic or carbon, driven by precision mechanics a good many years from a knock on heaven’s door.

Jungle Ready

Hublot Spirit of Big Bang Watch
67360 | £18,200

TAG Heuer Carrera Chrono Watch CV201AS.FC6429

TAG Heuer Carrera Watch
72330 | £2,530

Tudor Black Bay Watch
65617 | £2,600

Bremont Airco Mach 1 Watch

Bremont Airco Mach 1 Watch
67852 | £2,895

Zenith Defy El Primero 21 Carbon

Zenith Defy Watch
72994 | £15,500

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