Tudor Debuts New Ranger ‘Dune White’ Dial, 36mm Case Size

The Tudor Ranger is the most stripped-down Tudor tool watch – there’s nothing extra about it (in any sense of the word) and its combination of legibility, durability, and simplicity have made it the field watch to have if you’re looking for a field watch from Tudor. At Dubai Watch Week, Tudor launched a new dial color for the Ranger: the sand-adjacent “Dune White” and also a new case size for the Ranger, in 36mm.

The new Dune White dial features Super-LumiNova on the hands and also on the dial – there’s no lume on the dial markers themselves, but there are lume plots all around the dial, adjacent to the numerals and dial markers (although the Dune White design does raise the interesting possibility of a 36mm Ranger with a full lume dial). As with the other Ranger models, water resistance is 100 meters, and the movement is caliber MT5400, with a 70 hour power reserve.

The steel bracelet features Tudor’s T-Fit adjustable clasp, and the crown is embossed with the Tudor rose emblem.

The straps are woven by Julien Fauré, in France, and they’re much more durable than you’d expect from a fabric strap; I have one on a 2015 Black Bay and while I wouldn’t call it exactly untouched by time, a decade’s worth of intermittent but sometimes rough use have left it surprisingly close to the original condition. As of 2025, Tudor is the official timekeeper of the Dakar Rally, and the Ranger is the watch Tudor’s associated most closely with the event (not that you couldn’t wear a Black Bay or Pelagos rallying if you wanted to but there is something just slightly off brand about a dive watch in the desert).

The first version of the modern Ranger, launched in 2014, was 41mm, with beige lume and a vintage-style extended crown tube; it’s a handsome watch, but I feel as if lots of folks no sooner saw it than they began wishing for a 36mm version with a flush crown, and here we are. The whole category of field watches is somewhat loosely defined, but the Ranger in 36mm is about as good an example as you’ll find anywhere. You could I suppose wish for it to be Master Chronometer certified, but there is something pleasantly old school about a no-frills, sub-$4,000 watch designed to take whatever you can throw at it, as long as it’s not a 15,000 gauss magnetic field. A fine watch, whatever kind of explorer you might be.

The Tudor Ranger “Dune White,” in 36mm, and the black dialed 36mm model, are both $3,700 on bracelet, $3,350 on fabric strap. The 1916 Company is proud to be an authorized retailer for Tudor watches; contact us for pricing and availability.