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
As purchased the watch fits a 9-inch wrist, I reckon. I probably need to reduce it by an inch and a half or more. I may take one "link" off of each side every day until I think it's right. I don't really know what the feel of a silicone strap is like, so I don't know how loose or snug I want it. I'm thinking loose, since the deployant is huge, and I find that watches with long deployants don't slide and rotate on your wrist, so you can wear them looser. Worst case scenario is if I chop it a little too short, the deployant has a slide-to-enlarge feature, for wetsuits I think.
I did a test shave, and a large size Olfa rotary cutter (used in cutting yardage for sewing), on a cutting pad, goes through the silicone like a hot knife through butter, taking a clean millimeter off.