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23 January 2018, 01:52 AM | #1 |
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Advice on the daytona face
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I have sold my Sub a few days ago and am now interested in a Daytona. With my Sub. I had trouble seeing the time of night and I was watching the Daytona with brown dial and I have the same problem. Do I have to completely discard the black dial at the Daytona that I'm starting to look for? Anyone who already has the model with the black dial can advise me? Thanks friends. |
23 January 2018, 03:40 AM | #2 |
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I can’t read the time on the black dial Daytona without putting my reading glasses on. I normally don’t have that problem, but this dial is illegible in the metal.
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23 January 2018, 04:02 AM | #3 |
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As long there´s enough light I can read the time on my black Daytona dial very good.
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23 January 2018, 04:40 AM | #4 |
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Wait - an as is Daytona or the mysterious 42
Black is harder to read in older models (fine in 116500). I can’t read the brown one either |
23 January 2018, 11:07 AM | #5 |
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23 January 2018, 12:27 PM | #6 |
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No issue with legibility on my 116500 black dial.
I'm 36 and blessed to still have 20/20 vision, if that matters.
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23 January 2018, 02:10 PM | #7 |
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Am I missing something?
What’s the brown one? Platona? BTW the black 116500 is more legible than the black 116520 |
23 January 2018, 02:12 PM | #8 |
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It's a little tricky, and it's only when you go PM that you have access to more dial variations... and also easier to read...
I have always heard the black is easier to read. Which way are you leaning?
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23 January 2018, 02:15 PM | #9 |
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23 January 2018, 06:25 PM | #10 |
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I can read the dial in my Daytona, I don't know may be white dial color is more legible
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23 January 2018, 10:00 PM | #11 |
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23 January 2018, 10:04 PM | #12 |
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I had exactly that problem as much as I loved my black face Daytona I ended up flipping it for a white face
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