While in Geneva for the SIHH, I had the opportunity to spend a bit of time with an unexpected divers watch: the re-edition of the famous Triton Spirotechnique. Of course, the name has changed, and the case is slightly bigger than in the original, but this Triton Subphotique gave me a good reason to look into the past of a singular piece, with its characteristic crown at 12 o’clock. And I quickly discovered that back in the early 1960s, the original Triton was engineered as a hardcore diving watch, and manufactured by a famous supplier to the French Army. More astoundingly, it was then priced higher than the Rolex Submariner.