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
Edit: I dig the aesthetic btw.
My first one had issues and they took care of the issues without hesitation, and they have pretty good communication typically.
Everything I have from them is a "special" metal, I have 2 bronzes and 2 Tungsten. I like the heft of these metals. My other bronze is Combat, and I really like the look of that one when I hiking/doing outdoors stuff. The M series are more office wear.
If you don't mind getting emails (and hey you are on Massdrop so you probably don't) they have a sign up page to get notified of sales (which are 15% typically) They don't send a lot of mails I think I get 4-5 a year (2 or 3 for black friday and 1 or 2 for the other sales)
Nonetheless, I destroyed my last two nice watches so it's time. Do you have quartz or automatic? I hate batteries, so that's gonna factor in for me.
Sorry to ask more of you!
My combat is an auto with the respectable Miyota movement, it came with like 3 or 4 straps, and I really dig the NATO straps on the Combats. The crystal is synthetic sapphire which is nicely scratch resistant.
You might want to look around for a used one on some of the watch forums like watchuseek , as the more affordable combats are quartz battery movements now but there used to be some automatics available at around what they are now charging for the quartz.