No this is his other Daytona he had a white and a black and alternates between them, so really both watches have had half the abuse you would expect them to as they share the pain.

 

It's because it's a modern watch, mass produced and will never really be rare. Vintage pieces that have few survivors and are 40+ years old are a different story from a 2000s watch bought at the height of the Daytona craze

 

Mate don’t even get me started on his cars, he briefly went the Range Rover route in the early 2000s but drove it the way Range Rover likes to pretend they intend their cars to be used, and they don’t stand up to it, kids, dogs, bush bashing and sand dunes.

Then he went for a crew cab Hilux diesel and it didn’t stand up to it that much better, the Nissan Patrol V8 struggled, and now the Ranger Raptor is getting put through its paces.

If you're a bar / restaurant owner for real and not some celebrity chef that pretends to be one, you need to be up at 5AM checking for lost property left behind before the cleaners take it, taking stock, receiving deliveries of produce, counting the take, and you're handling logistics like restocking the booze before the lunch session.

That means he'll go to his supplier and spend a few thousand on beer, wine, spirits and whatever else, packing the car until the suspension sags then heading back to unload and get it all on the shelves. Cases of beer are like 14kg, wine isn't much less and kegs are 80KG, metal, and roll around on you so even if a ute or SUV claims to be a 1 tonne it isn't really designed to carry that every day and then go dune hopping on the weekend.

It sounds like a cushy job but if you're working in the business and doing the background work yourself to ensure it gets done right its a bloody hard way to make a living, 364 days a year with only christmas day off. He's been going for 17 years now though in an industry where businesses don't last more than 5 on average though so he's good at what he does and there's an expectation of a bit of style and glamour that comes along with the role and the Daytona fits that quite well, its just that most people don't realise how much dirt is under his fingernails every morning from the 7 hours before they open for lunch.

 

Yea I think a lot of people would think its cool and a lot would be worried about the harm done to its resale value but he’s happy and gotten his money’s worth out of both of them.

 

Now over 5 months on this repair and still no update from RSC Melbourne, even by their particularly poor standards this is getting a bit frustrating.