There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
1. They feature radio reception, so you don't need to correct for DST.
2. They feature GPS, so you still can sync to correct time when radio reception is unavailable
3. They run on solar power, hence no battery replacement required
4. Perpetual calendar
All of the above features make them the most advanced of the analog watches out there, a watch that is on time, all the time and at most locations (exceptions being where no signal reception is present) and a watch that keeps going. Anyone else interested in them? These are a few models.
OCW-G1100-1A
OCW-G1000DB-1A
OCW-G1000-1A2
OCW-G1000B-1A