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
There's also Enrique Pena's swayback flipper that is quite similar but without the hole and more complicated handle construction, that would also be a production grail knife for me.
You can see that the Slysz is more like a prototype for a production knife from everyone's favorite upscale utilitarian knife company with a wonderful Taichung shop, while the Pena (I cannot type his name correctly and it's awful) is a little bit more, I guess neutral, it's clearly Pena's work, but he makes customs and most of us haven't had an opportunity to get familiar with his designs. His swayback flipper seems more universal and more like a typical contemporary framelock compared to the Slysz which feels more like a true framelock counterpart to a traditional-style single-blade swayback slipjoint.