Daytona oysterflex -scarce or not .

[garyk]

Originally Posted by IGY

The silly names are not really silly but instead useful in the sense that they are:

1) descriptive and
2) memorable.

As for the names being a bit childish or naff, sure I agree. And they also identify you are a bit of a watch geek / Rolex fan boy/girl. You may - or may not - be happy to be identified as someone that spends too much time obsessing about dial / bezel combinations on something as mundane as a watch. I don't use those names in Rolex ADs for that reason, even though the sales associates have on rare occasion used the nick names themselves. (I imagine their brand training asks them not to).

You do make some sense. After the delivery of my 116500 in early 2017 and learning about watches since i began collecting in the 70s, i corrected a guy who called my Daytona a panda. I explained what a panda watch looked like and then found out that other people on TRF etc were mistakenly referring to my daytona as a panda. So, just my opinion but the nicknames of such sophisticated machinery as a Rolex are kind of silly?!