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
Not written by me. But was inspired to buy one. In fact these choppers sold in Hong Kong were mostly between 150-250hkd which works out to less than 35usd. The shop folks were elderly people who spoke mainly Cantonese. Luckily there were customers there who helped me translate. They have a few grades of similar looking choppers in terms of the utilisation of the chopper, eg, all rounders, meat/bone, slicing fish(hmm. Not sure how a chopper can be used to make sashimi). I bought 2. one for myself and one for a friend. Size no.1 and size no. 2. Both with the steel handles. Here's how they pair up in size. Believe there are a couple of them for sale on ebay.