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
Through my own impulsiveness I clicked "Join Drop" on 13 different watches since joining the site for a pair of headphones in May of '17. I only regretted 2 of the 13, one of which Massdrop was offering a return on and the other one I flipped. Of the 13: I canceled two of them before the drop ended, returned one to MD, and flipped five of the remaining ten. The survivors are below and a couple of them are among my favorite watches (the Oris and the SKX).
Another was seeing people posting on the forums (Jimmy) and turning me in to a serious strap swapper. I had largely left watches on their stock straps until about a year or so ago. Now I switch all the time unless I find something I am in love with (see the razor wire on the SKX). Massdrop was also my intro to Nick Mankey designs, and I now have several of his straps (see Oris above, a couple more on shelf below).
All of this has helped me slow my collecting down and focus on pieces I really want in my collection. I look at it as trial and error and Massdrop has helped me in figuring out what I really want to have in my collection. So have all the people here on the boards who post in Wrist Check or generally share related content!