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
Are the red Swiss Legend winders the best, or is it just that they fit more efficiently in your cabinet space?
Note: Larger heavy diver watches will cause the cup that holds the watch to sag and spin unevenly. The cup will start scraping and grinding away at the sidewalls of the hole that the cup sits and spins in. After a few days of spinning there will be a build-up of finely ground plastic that looks like powder EVERYWHERE inside the winder and all over the watch - its the plastic thats been scraped and ground away.....what a mess! This happened to five of my diver watches - two 47mm Invicta Pro Divers and three 45mm Aragon DiveMaster watches. There was no damage to the watches and the winders were ok after a bit of cleaning and tightening of a few screws (dissembling required). I no longer use Swiss Legend winders to turn heavy diver watches.
Maybe this "hollow" 47-mm Invicta diver would be light enough for your winders! What the heck kind of movement is that!
https://www.jomashop.com/invicta-watch-24692.html