That’s like saying film versus digital, or analog music verses digital. Some of us have both and appreciate that a few companies choose to continue heritage technologies for us to enjoy.
I think the comparison is more like a manual transmission or automatic transmission. Even though the automatic have the technology to out do manuals, some people feel some cars should be nothing but manual.
That’s why there is not Many automatic race cars 😉
I think the comparison is more like a manual transmission or automatic transmission. Even though the automatic have the technology to out do manuals, some people feel some cars should be nothing but manual.
I would very much like to have a Daytona, panda dial of course. BUT, I am not willing to pay for it and wait however many years it takes to get one. So I have four Speedies. Three new ones this year. And a Tudor I got last Christmas. Daytona ish.
Considering both of my cars have manual transmissions, you can see where I fall in that camp. I actually had to hunt for a year to find my most recent car in manual since only about 5% were made in manual trans and only from 2017-2019 for that model.
I like both watches - Daytona and Speedmaster. I am in the process of reacquiring a speedmaster for mod though I have Daytona.
So I know this as been done in some way or another more than 1000 times, but I want to look at it on each watches own merit. History and resale value is a large part of why people buy one of these two watches, however I want to get peoples options ( I know this is a bias omega forum) on these two watches based on quality and visual beauty ( I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder). For that reason, I want to use sapphire sandwich version because it uses modern materials that I feel would match better to a Daytona. Nothing wrong with the hesalite, but it is more geared to history, rather than materials for modern watch making. So the question is, does the Speedmaster carry quality, prestige, luxury on par or near on par with the Daytona or are they on two different level?
History versus Celebrity.
History versus Celebrity.
I'd go for the Speedy every day of the week and twice on Sundays!........I'd rather take substance over artificially confected bullshit!