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If you don’t like a certain product…… don’t buy it. The Daytona happens to check many boxes for me. I am not diminished because others don’t like what I like.
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The new 126500 white dail is a stunner.
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The Daytona mvmt is simply too small. They need a new movement to space out the subdials and go to a bigger dial and thinner bezel. It's like the PP 5070, Rolex has played all the tricks to make the watch seem bigger while hiding the limitations of the mvmt like thinning the ceramic bezel and adding an outter ring. It looks good, but its disguising a DD36 size dial surrounded by a 40mm fat suit of case and pushers. Current mvmt should get sized down into a more fitting 37/8 mm case and a new mvmt created to take the Daytona to 42mm with thinner bezel.
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I don't get the hype on these watches
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It's not for everyone. I prefer Subs and GMTs over the Daytona but it's a great watch regardless.
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I am fortunate for owning and flipping most of the hot cake steel watches from all brands in my almost 20 years of collecting watches but never had any interest in the daytona, the design doesnt speak to me nor the function. Looks like a Swatch piece, but on a lady it would be more interesting imo
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Love my Daytonas ... seems like it should be easy to buy them with so many who don't like them.
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You couldn't make a more user-unfriendly chronograph if you tried.
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I was also unimpressed with the most hyped model Daytona the Panda, but I can't let it go because I want at least one Daytona in my collection because I feel it's an essential part of any respectable collection like the Speedy, Pepsi, and black Submariner/Sea Dweller.
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Credit where it is due, the actuation of the chronograph on the Daytona is par excellence.
It did not have a rackety, jarring feel between priming the chronograph pusher and actually pushing down on it. I’ve yet to experience a mechanical chronograph that operates so sublimely. If I ever pull the trigger on a Daytona, it’s gotta be the white dial TT 116523 or 116503. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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You don't have to screw down the Daytona pushers.
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IMO the steel daytona wears small and is underwhelming and boring. The platinum with crystal blue dial has a lot of presence and character as do several of the PM variants on oyster flex. But personally there are so many more interesting watches at these price points.
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It's funny because I always viewed my sub as the perfect watch for me and the Daytona as purely hype. Once I purchased a Daytona, and wore it daily I fell in love with it. The case shape (116500LN), the size, the way it disappears on my wrist, the way it looks in different lights, plays with the light, I understood the hype and it turned out to be very real for me. Currently I just want to collect and wear more variations of the Daytona, rather than another watch, but we'll see if that holds up.
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I never get tired of seeing this watch or any other Daytona …
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