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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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Same here
Same for me as well. But I am not too worried as the same thing happened to me with the Key West order, and iirc the order still went through.
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Same for me as well. But I am not too worried as the same thing happened to me with the Key West order, and iirc the order still went through.
I went back in to my e-mail and could no longer find the PayPal confirmation. For a second I though I had imagined receiving it, but upon checking the PayPal account I see that the payment is still there.

Weird.

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Nevermind. I pinned the PayPal e-mail, which is why I missed it in the inbox. Je suis l'idiot.
So 2021..
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I'm a bit annoyed by the fact that apparently only plank owners are able to access the TR instagram account.
What movement is going to be in the TR? Can't seem to find that info on the MKII website.

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Nevermind, I found it in this thread. It's a SII NE15 movement. I was hoping for a no-date movement, but so be it.
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I noticed that the bezel minute markers from 0 to 15 are gone from the release watches. Makes for a cleaner bezel.
They're still there on the aluminium bezel.

I too went for the acrylic/khaki combo. Looking forward to getting it!
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I'm wondering whether it would be feasible to mount a functional water ingress indicator onto the dial of the TR. After all, it's not much more than a specialized piece of paper attached to another piece of paper that acts as a colour reference.

I wonder if anyone still makes these and makes them available for sale. Maybe I need to stop by the Blancpain boutique and ask.
Maybe Bill can sell some TR dials separately for us to mess around with ;)
Doubtful, but a man can hope!
I agree that it's doubtful he'd make those available. However, one could easily use non-premanent adhesive to mount the indicator to the dial.
I'm normally pretty good at waiting, but after eagerly anticipating Sept. 25th when shipping was to begin, it is a bit of a disappointment to find out that only 2 watches went out that day.
I received my TR today, and I'm infatuated. The watch looks so much better irl than it does in the pics online! I love the proportions, the size, the fact that the lack of rotor noise rivals a couple of my watches with swiss movements and even those awesomely fat, shoulderless springbars (I hope Bill makes those available to purchase seperately at some point). He totally knocked this one out of the park, and that's coming from someone who wasn't 100% happy with the Key West.

Currently I have it on an Artem sailcloth while the khaki strap breaks in.

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I've had it on the wrist 10 days and infatuation would be a good way to describe it. I need to take some more photos.

How do you like it on the Artem strap?
I like it well enough, though I am still not completely sold on sailcloth straps in general. I wear em more for looks than anything else - I generally prefer the comfort of canvas or leather.
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Anyone know where I could get a bead blasted deployant clasp? It looks like Hadley Roma had a sand blasted one, but that seems to be sold out everywhere.
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Great new review of the TR-660 up on Worn & Wound.

Review: the Tornek-Rayville TR-660 - Worn & Wound
What’s the general consensus on which insert is better, aluminum or acrylic?
It might be difficult getting a consensus on that seeing that there's probably very few people that have both versions to make a comparison, and that personal preference between the two materials in general plays a large role.

In my case I have never been a huge fan of aluminium inserts and I love the 3D look of the numerals in the acrylic insert.
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I can count on one hand the number of times where a stranger commented on my watch. Most of the time it's because I'm wearing a Rolex, or something that looks like a Rolex.

But this morning while having a coffee outside a bakery with my buddy, a guy with his lady friend passed us and did a double take when he saw the TR-660 on my wrist. He actually knew it was the re-issue and was quite excited to catch one in the wild. We had a quick talk about price and availability, I let him handle the watch and commented on his 39mm Explorer and they went on their way.
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That’s pretty cool. The odds of someone even recognizing the TR and knowing it was the re-issue is crazy. Especially as a random encounter in public.
Agreed. Where there not the "guy code" preventing us men from bromancing strangers, I would have set up a play date to compare watches then and there :LOL:
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