Can’t Afford a Blancpain Fifty Fathoms? Buy This Military Dive Watch Instead

Historic brand Tornek-Rayville is being resurrected with a reissue of its badass diver from the 1960s.

Though many horological enthusiasts may not know the historic name Tornek-Rayville, the look of the brand’s first watch in decades will be familiar. In the 1960s, Blancpain’s now-famous Fifty Fathoms was tweaked and rebranded with the name of its US distributor for issue to American special operations forces as the Tornek-Rayville TR-900.

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