Who the hell decided, and when, to nickname “panda” a white dial with three black sub-counters positioned at 3, 6 and 9 o'clock?
Mystery!
But it must be recognized that this display configuration of sports watches and pilots from the 1960s and 1970s is indeed reminiscent of the famous animal.
In any case, the name has not ceased to spread, beyond the Heuer Carrera 2447 and other original Rolex Cosmograph Daytona.
"One wonders where the current popularity of this term comes from among collectors and brands,"
acknowledges Paul Miquel, author of the reference work
Rare Watches,
the new updated edition of which will appear in September.
But it has become a sort of syntactic security blanket, ultimately even more technical than if we were talking about sub-counters. ”
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In reality, this nickname allows above all to qualify a sports chronograph in a different way, whose functions and movement condition the architecture of the display.
“Historically, the panda is linked
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