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Tornek Rayville Please

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Hi all,

I sit here, as I write this, with a wonderful P300 ( with date ) on my wrist. I took off the metal bracelet and put it on the supplied NATO. It looks absolutely amazing. It constantly draws the eye. The clarity, crispness and precision of the dial is mesmerising. The bezel is brilliantly legible when viewed straight and reflects all sorts of fabulous colours at other angles.

After the watch finally cleared UK Customs ( after 2 weeks ), it has not left my wrist for a week and I am a very happy man.

Except .... I struggle to describe this ... I have a strange and tiny piece of emptiness inside. A little void where something is missing. Where something used to be. It took me some days to work out what it was ... for the first time in almost 10 years my "incoming list" is now empty. I no longer harbour that small ( often suppressed ) feeling of excitement and anticipation that the P300 has provided for so many years.

So, as an open plea to Bill, will you please take my deposit for a Tornek Rayville. I really don't mind how long the wait, but would prefer something a little less than 10 years ;-)



To those who have received your P300s - enjoy them. For those still waiting - I hope it will not be much longer now.

:-D
Neily

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Hey guys, hope everyone is keeping good health and enjoying their watches! :)

I havent been around for some time and just popped in to check on TR's status. I can see on the TR page that a $450 deposit has already been collected from some and that ordering is closed at this point. Did I miss it? I have been signed up on this TR mailing list for quite a few years now and Im pretty sure I wouldnt have missed an email on the subject, unless the mailing list had been purged and a new one established.

On the other hand by reading this thread, it appears I didnt miss anything and my above deduction is false?
You haven't missed anything. It looks like the TR will be in Bill's RTW line, so I'm sure there won't be any deposits collected. They'll just be posted for sale on the MKII website one day, and it'll be a mad rush to try and buy one before they're all gone.
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Hey guys, hope everyone is keeping good health and enjoying their watches! :)

I havent been around for some time and just popped in to check on TR's status. I can see on the TR page that a $450 deposit has already been collected from some and that ordering is closed at this point. Did I miss it? I have been signed up on this TR mailing list for quite a few years now and Im pretty sure I wouldnt have missed an email on the subject, unless the mailing list had been purged and a new one established.

On the other hand by reading this thread, it appears I didnt miss anything and my above deduction is false?
You haven't missed anything. It looks like the TR will be in Bill's RTW line, so I'm sure there won't be any deposits collected. They'll just be posted for sale on the MKII website one day, and it'll be a mad rush to try and buy one before they're all gone.
My PayPal payment went through, but the MKII website wouldn't let me finalize my order. I've already sent MKII a message to see what the deal is.
For everyone who’s PayPal got charged but your order didn’t go through, check your email. MKII is honoring those orders!!!
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I read the comments on Hodinkee. It makes me chuckle when pretentious people get their panties in a wad.

There’s nothing about my TR that I don’t like. It looks like I’m one of the only plank owners who went with the aluminum bezel insert.
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Agreed. It's more sad than anything. I actually almost got the aluminum... Love the acrylic but frankly wish I got both!
It was hard for me to decide between acrylic and aluminum. I used to have an MKII Stingray with acrylic bezel that I liked a lot, but for some reason, the aluminum bezel just looked better to me on the TR. I've always been a fan of bezel minute marks between the pip and 15.
Either he is incredibly wealthy and never held a real job, or he is a perfect example of the “perpetual academic” who has five or ten useless degrees and is too lazy to work, so he devotes his life to becoming the worlds greatest expert on some arcane subject that holds the interest of himself and ten others in the world! Insufferable snobs hold absolutely no interest to me as their useful contribution to society is so minuscule that it could reside on the head of a pin. And as you said, most if not all of his years of research could have been done in 2% of the time on the internet!
I can guarantee you that had Bill produced this watch as a limited edition with a custom Swiss movement and a price tag north of 10 grand, these same guys would be falling all over themselves to get one, or even better have sold the trademark to Swatch and the “new” TR bearing little resemblance to the original selling for 20 grand.
The nice thing is I’m confident that Bill is quite content with what he is producing, and could care less about what the Swiss watch snobs have to say. Personally I’m glad that the “new” TR has a strong connection to the original and is in a price range that is affordable to most everyone who admires the watch.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Also, all those haters seem to have forgotten that the original TR was built to be a workhorse...not a luxury watch. Bill has brought this watch back with that same workhorse mentality, but with keen attention to detail, and they just can't stand it.
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Quality is exceptional, very well made watch.
I am impressed.
Beautiful to look at, just not sure it sits well on my wrist, may be too flat.





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I forgot I had a grey Erika’s laying around, so I put it on last night.
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