sanzaw
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Stainless Steel Daytona, still the standard
Nov 19, 2014,22:36 PM
Couldn't help but snap a wristshot while waiting for a flight.
Been through AP's, Panerais, and a variety of Rolexes. The Stainless Steel Daytona holds a sacred place in my heart. Largely unchanged since the movement update in 2000, unaffected by the ceramic/carbon/you-name-it exotic material craze, and utterly unapologetic about what it does well, tells the time, and establishes itself as one of the world's best chronograph (if not the best). No dates, no moon phases, just solid engineering.
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Stainless Steel Daytona, still the standard
By: sanzaw : November 19th, 2014-22:36
Couldn't help but snap a wristshot while waiting for a flight. Been through AP's, Panerais, and a variety of Rolexes. The Stainless Steel Daytona holds a sacred place in my heart. Largely unchanged since the movement update in 2000, unaffected by the cera...
Nice wristshot!
By: fai9al_429 : November 19th, 2014-23:02
I couldn't agree more with what you've mentioned about the mighty Daytona!!!
my only comment
By: watch-er : November 29th, 2014-07:23
is I wish the steel models would have the wonderful legibility/contrast of the markers in the sub dials as the gold models have. Especially with the steel black dial, I simply cannot read the elapsed time as the minute marks have so little contrast. The b...
Agree
By: sanzaw : December 1st, 2014-07:53
It's a deliberate ploy from Rolex to get us staring at the Daytona dial longer that needed! I agree, it takes some tilting about to see the exact minutes elapsed, though I must say getting used to the graduation marks almost allows me to get a good idea o...