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Proof that the Speedmaster is superior to the Daytona

Pastorbottle
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Coke must be in glass bottles, to be at its best! I’ve been a contractor to the local bottling operation, and the stuff in glass is a totally different animal to the stuff in cans….. or worse of all…..plastic bottles (Bloody awful)
It must be colder than a politician’s promise, and from a newly opened bottle, to maximise the fizz…….once the seal is broken it must be consumed, never should the lid be screwed back on.
There enduth the lesson!
 
Ron_W
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A speed limiter on Daytona..... 😕 their hands couldn`t keep up i guess 😁

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Just FYI - Rolex reduced the beat rate when they used the El Primero, so it was a 28,800 A/hr movement in that instance.
 
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Pastorbottle Pastorbottle
Coke must be in glass bottles, to be at its best! I’ve been a contractor to the local bottling operation, and the stuff in glass is a totally different animal to the stuff in cans….. or worse of all…..plastic bottles (Bloody awful)
It must be colder than a politician’s promise, and from a newly opened bottle, to maximise the fizz…….once the seal is broken it must be consumed, never should the lid be screwed back on.
There enduth the lesson!
Coke made with high fructose corn syrup can't hold a candle to the real deal made with cane sugar, glass bottle or not. Once Coke went down the cheaper corn syrup route in the early 80's the taste was permanently degraded. Nothing's better than a Mexican Coke in a glass bottle, put's the corn syrup crap to shame.
 
Pastorbottle
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Oh yeah there’s some excellent alternative colas out there, Pepsi isn’t one of them
 
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There is no need to keep the Daytona's chrono collars screwed down. None. They don't add anything to its WR, the collars are only there to prevent pushing a button under water. I always leave them unscrewed, ready for action. And they look better that way, too.
I read somewhere that the pusher will still work just fine underwater
p4ul p4ul
So glad you said that, brought this home (UK) from Florida in about 1990!
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Noticed your Little Dot headphone amplifier! Very nice! How do you like it?
 
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TexasMather TexasMather
I read somewhere that the pusher will still work just fine underwater
I bet it wasn't an official Rolex statement...
 
p4ul
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TexasMather TexasMather
I read somewhere that the pusher will still work just fine underwater


Noticed your Little Dot headphone amplifier! Very nice! How do you like it?

Good value. Nice smooth round sound, softens flac files stored on my Mac. I swopped out the stock valves for Russian ones before the current troubles.
 
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TexasMather TexasMather
I read somewhere that the pusher will still work just fine underwater

I think I've seen something along those lines myself.
That's how I've come to believe in the back of my mind that they're supposedly good for the operational pressure at 100 metres depth.
Hense my query before as to why they need the screw down component on the pusher design👎
 
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GrouchoM GrouchoM
I bet it wasn't an official Rolex statement...

Now that's a good point, but I could be wrong in that I may have seen it on a previous version of the Rolex website years ago.
Iirc, I thought it was kind of impressive that they could be operated down to 100 metres but I suspect they're static pressure tested in the locked down position to 110 metres as is customary with Rolex testing procedures on their non-diver professional references.

Regardless.
The Daytona ain't no Speedy Pro😗
 
Bucks
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I haven't read all the comments but has it been mentioned that the Speedmaster put the tachymeter on the bezel first, then the Daytona followed.
 
styggpyggeno1
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Proof!? I will give proof... 😉

Of what might be the question.

Open for interpretration. Feel free to speculate.

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Watch my Whisky
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Proof!? I will give proof... 😉

Of what might be the question.

Open for interpretration. Feel free to speculate.

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Do you have any more pictures of those two Daytonas?
 
SpeedyPhill
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Some astronauts did own a Rolex Daytona (e.g. Walter Schirra Rolex Daytona 6240), and Mike McCulley wore his personal Rolex Daytona 6263 in space.
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Watch my Whisky Watch my Whisky
Do you have any more pictures of those two Daytonas?

Both have service dials and hands. Originals stashed for the future.

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Edit - original dial and hands for the 16518. It is difficult to find occasions to use the watch as above. Impossible - with this dial...

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GrouchoM
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Now that's a good point, but I could be wrong in that I may have seen it on a previous version of the Rolex website years ago.
Iirc, I thought it was kind of impressive that they could be operated down to 100 metres but I suspect they're static pressure tested in the locked down position to 110 metres as is customary with Rolex testing procedures on their non-diver professional references.

Regardless.
The Daytona ain't no Speedy Pro😗
If Rolex condoned pressing the buttons under-water, why would they be screw-in?
 
styggpyggeno1
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Watch my Whisky Watch my Whisky
Lovely. Digging the cuffs, too.

This is a bit of fun I have. If someone is staring at your watch and see this... They know it is OK to discuss watches. If they do not get it - they probably stare for the wrong reason.

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If Rolex condoned pressing the buttons under-water, why would they be screw-in?

Precisely👍
That's why I'm becoming more confused about it all.

Maybe that's another reason why the Speedy Pro is superior, because everything is a simpler proposition when we set aside the practicalities around water resistance and comparing the two watches.
 
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Some astronauts did own a Rolex Daytona (e.g. Walter Schirra Rolex Daytona 6240), and Mike McCulley wore his personal Rolex Daytona 6263 in space.
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ROLEX MoonwatchUniverse NASA.jpg

Astronauts can be vain too.
 
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