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
"In the last half decade, I’d venture to say that the most interesting watch category is that below $1,000. Let’s face it, above that price level on up to the true luxury brands, quality tends to be consistently high and the value and “worth” of a watch becomes a little more abstract, often getting defined by murkier criteria like “brand reputation,” “resale value” and “prestige.” But those watches competing below a grand have to work a little harder to set themselves apart. It wasn’t so long ago that, besides a few Swiss Army watches and a lot of Seikos, this price range usually meant cookie-cutter designs, poor timekeeping and scratchy crowns. Now Pinion is competing with Halios, Unimatic, Baltic and Autodromo, all compelling options. "
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/pinion-atom-value-proposition?mc_cid=3fb821c61c&mc_eid=7ca64e2f50