Exactly what is a Panda?

[BrazenC5]

Originally Posted by 77T

Contrasting colors - light subdials against a dark dial; or vice-versa.

Remember everyone’s going to have an opinion. Some may be literally back or white - others are more color compliant.


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I think the general consensus is that the dial (face) has similar color markings of the face of a panda. Pandas are for the most part, known to have a white face with black markings around the eyes and nose.

Hence white dial/black sub-dials - panda; black dial/white sub-dials - reverse panda

[nan7yo]

This is a panda (eyes closed)



This is a panda (eyes opened)



So I still call 116500LN Panda (with eyes opened)




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[richard371]

Technically white dial solid black subdials but we get away with calling many pandas such as the 116500 white, 116519 wg and Big red. Unless some institute classifies certain models as panda only we can cal any one we want panda lol.

[inadeje]

Originally Posted by MinMay

The 116500 ceramic white is NOT a panda. If the face is white then the sundial needs to be solid black...not just a black ring.

[77T]

Originally Posted by MinMay

The 116500 ceramic white is NOT a panda. If the face is white then the sundial needs to be solid black...not just a black ring.

I asked Rolex...here is their answer below.






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[77T]

Originally Posted by richard371

Technically white dial solid black subdials but we get away with calling many pandas such as the 116500 white, 116519 wg and Big red. Unless some institute classifies certain models as panda only we can cal any one we want panda lol.

I saw this article from last week and it points up your last sentence.

https://www.watchtime.com/featured/h...ewman-daytona/




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[Seaotter]

Originally Posted by exador

panda vs daytona

🤣

[richard371]

Lol I’m glad Rolex didn’t make the dials solid black on the D500. I’d like many that own the current one would still be in the list.

Originally Posted by 77T

I saw this article from last week and it points up your last sentence.

https://www.watchtime.com/featured/h...ewman-daytona/




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[TimeToWatch]

Originally Posted by mbrown55

since all nicknames are just that, nicknames, please don't get snarky with your answers because they will just be individual opinions, possibly supported by consensus opinions or not.
My question is what is considered a Rolex Panda. My cursory internet searches have found that generally speaking a panda dial is a chronograph with white dial and black contrasting subdials, both solid black and ringed in black. There are several manufacturers of this type of watch, not just Rolex. I have heard the platinum daytona called the Platona and specific models named for celebrities who owned them, e.g. Paul Newman. But the usage of Panda seems to apply to many different submodels.

It would seem that the current SS 116500LN with white dial is a Panda.

ok let the bloodletting begin.

I don't think the 116500 is a true panda as it's subdials are not filled. True panda dials have filled subdials. I'd argue the 116519LN is more of a panda than the 116500

[Twinkie]

Can the white 116500C be called a polar bear with 2 black eyes?

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[ppalasthira]

Sorry but I hate it when a WIS comes up to me and ask “is that a panda?’

For me, the D500 has black chrono rings not solid chrono rings. Which technically doesn’t qualify as a panda dial.

But people can call what they like.


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[ppalasthira]

Originally Posted by 77T

I saw this article from last week and it points up your last sentence.

https://www.watchtime.com/featured/h...ewman-daytona/




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Thanks for the article.


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[Batmannr1]

The last panda dial of Rolex for a white gold Daytona116509
The dial is discontinued a few years ago.

[Number3]

Originally Posted by AK797

Panda has black subdials not rings for me, and reverse Panda is with white subdials. The rings in AP parlance is an owl dial, esp when only two subdials, and a surprised owl when three.

Reverse Panda - sounds rude!

[Devildog]

Originally Posted by Marlboro.

The true panda is a white dial with solid black sub-dials, although a lot of people do call the blacked ringed sub-dials pandas as well, which is not technically correct.

Its just a nickname, so "technically" its not "technically incorrect" either

[AK797]

Originally Posted by Number3

Reverse Panda - sounds rude!

You should try surprising an owl!

[HogwldFLTR]

I'm a panda damnit...

[77T]

Originally Posted by HogwldFLTR

I'm a panda damnit...

For years you were...

But DNA analysis has revealed the giant panda's closest relative is the spectacled bear from South America.

Before that scientists insisted the species was more closely related to the raccoon.

Here is the cousin Panda




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[Otto]

I think these two qualify.

[mbrown55]

Watch aficionado Kevin O'Leary says that the new white face SS 116500LN is a "panda"

[AK797]

Originally Posted by mbrown55

Watch aficionado Kevin O'Leary says that the new white face SS 116500LN is a "panda"

This guy didn't even know the famous 5711 ref number for the Nautilus.

[ILuvSubs]

This!

Originally Posted by BrazenC5

I think the general consensus is that the dial (face) has similar color markings of the face of a panda. Pandas are for the most part, known to have a white face with black markings around the eyes and nose.

Hence white dial/black sub-dials - panda; black dial/white sub-dials - reverse panda