This story is part of our end-of-year series This Year in Gear, rounding up the most notable releases of 2022. For more stories like this, click here. Watch collecting tends to skew expensive, and many notable new timepieces often cost in the thousands. But this year was interesting and a bit unexpected as some of the most remarkable releases in 2022 were firmly in affordable territory (relative as that may be). We’re talking about watches that get respect from