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
A couple of years ago I took my Orient non-Bambino to their HQ in Tokyo. It was painful to change dates and was running slow. They said that they had revised that model to add a button to help make date changing quick. As for running slow, they gave me their official specs for their in-house movement... as I recall, it was > 30 secs a day max, so mine at 25 secs a day was "in spec".
I also found the Panzera Breuer 44 auto (with lume unlike Ken Wang's) and mesh strap for about $250 here to be a great price performer. Please request this drop back as I missed out by a day last time: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/panzera-breur-watch