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View Poll Results: 526 or YM-II?
I'll take the 526 21 51.22%
I'll take the YM-II 15 36.59%
526 vs YM-II is not a legit comparison 5 12.20%
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Old 23 January 2013, 10:30 PM   #1
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Icon1 PAM 526 - a better YachtMaster II?

i get the feeling that the 526 has slipped through the cracks a bit during the initial (overly harsh) reaction to SIHH 2013.

a completely new and in-house flyback chrono regatta movement by OP is pretty interesting, IMO, and at $11,800, the price seems reasonable (especially in comparison to a YM-II). at least to me, the mechanism seems pretty straight-forward and i quite like the design/color scheme, too.
"How the Regatta Timer and Flyback Chrono work:

The orange push-button at four o’clock moves the central orange chronograph minute hand back one minute at a time, until it is at the correct position in relation to the length of the countdown. On starting the chronograph,by pushing the chronograph stop/start button at ten o’clock, the relative hands begin to move, indicating first the minutes and seconds remaining until the start, and then, when the countdown has finished, the time elapsed since the start of the race. The push-button at eight o’clock ends the time measurement, returning allthe chronograph hands to zero. Alternatively, if it is operated while the hands are still moving, it activates the return-to-zero (flyback) function, thus enabling a new time interval to be measured immediately without operating the stop and reset buttons."
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"The flange carries the scale of up to 15 minutes for the countdown to the start, with the five final minutes picked out in orange, and also the tachymeter scale expressed in knots, enabling the speed of the yacht to be measured over a defined distance."






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Old 23 January 2013, 11:02 PM   #2
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i would get the 526 over the YMII any day
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Old 23 January 2013, 11:21 PM   #3
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Much classier than a ymII...

From a diehard Rolex freak.
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Old 23 January 2013, 11:37 PM   #4
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Oh - for me - heaps nicer looking than the YM.
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Old 24 January 2013, 02:51 AM   #5
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I agree with everyone but I've got to go with gold. Gold fever speaking!
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Old 24 January 2013, 02:58 AM   #6
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the 526 looks so much better than the ym 2.
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Old 24 January 2013, 03:02 AM   #7
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Not only asthetically, but functionally it looks easier to operate as well.
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Old 24 January 2013, 03:07 AM   #8
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thanks for all the replies. keep voting, y'all!

the difference in voting between the panerai board and the rolex board is really extreme at this point.
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Old 24 January 2013, 03:45 AM   #9
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sorry if some of you have that Rolex
but the YMII is one of the most ugly watches I ever saw

The Panerai isn't the best ever but for sure much nicer than the fugly Rolex
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Old 24 January 2013, 04:37 AM   #10
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simple is better. im not a huge fan on the panerai chronos. keep it classic.
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Old 24 January 2013, 05:44 AM   #11
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Old 24 January 2013, 09:22 AM   #12
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