Bye red second hand! Newman Dial

[Chadridv]

Not a huge change, especially compared to the retirement of the green Daytona and meteorite dials, etc. but still Technically a discontinued reference and brought back with, what I feel is a big change to the dial. The red seconds hand always made this dial For me.

(Also apologies if this has been covered already)

[TheHulk]

The red second hand is the baller version!!!

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by TheHulk

The red second hand is the baller version!!!

I agree, it’s the first thing I said, seeing the dial in person… “I love the red second hand!”

[WAK4]

Those that have the red...hang onto them. Def looks better with it IMO.

[Robf52]

Originally Posted by TheHulk

The red second hand is the baller version!!!

This.

[Hulkhunter]

I was waiting on one of these. Old one looks better

[tifosi]

I think removing the black subdial hands is worse.

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by tifosi

I think removing the black subdial hands is worse.

This is like one those “what’s different?” Picture bar games haha, and honestly didn’t see that till now.

[ap1]

With glide lock !

[PenDelicate]

Originally Posted by Chadridv

This is like one those “what’s different?” Picture bar games haha, and honestly didn’t see that till now.

Nor me!

[tifosi]

Originally Posted by Chadridv

This is like one those “what’s different?” Picture bar games haha, and honestly didn’t see that till now.

Originally Posted by PenDelicate

Nor me!

haha! Now you can't unsee it!!

[d7s]

glad I got the red hand version a couple weeks ago.
As I said in another thread, while still very pretty I feel like it lost a lot of character without the red hand.

As for the sub dials hands , I actually hate the new ones, they basically made them invisible :D

[Booth9999]

Red second hand is the best looking to me.

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by d7s

glad I got the red hand version a couple weeks ago.
As I said in another thread, while still very pretty I feel like it lost a lot of character without the red hand.

As for the sub dials hands , I actually hate the new ones, they basically made them invisible :D

Totally agree! I admit, the red second hand is the biggest aesthetic change, which for me is the most important since I don’t even use the chronograph lol. But to make those hands the same color as the subdials is completely asinine.

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by tifosi

haha! Now you can't unsee it!!

Haha 100%

[Chiboy]

Originally Posted by tifosi

I think removing the black subdial hands is worse.

I couldn’t figure out why the new sub dials looked so bland on my phone.

[tifosi]

Originally Posted by Chiboy

I couldn’t figure out why the new sub dials looked so bland on my phone.

You're welcome!

[RyanO]

Boy am I glad I picked up the old model last week


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[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by RyanO

Boy am I glad I picked up the old model last week


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Congrats!

[bp1000]

Originally Posted by tifosi

I think removing the black subdial hands is worse.

Totally agree. Bad for legibility. I'm not so bothered about no red chronograph hand but gold sub hands on gold sub dials. Why.

[Chiboy]

Sometimes new releases get everyone excited and many times it takes a while (if ever) for the new releases to grow on us.

But I can't imagine ever liking the new PN model more than the old. The red seconds hand was a little like the pop of red in the exotic dial of the '60s, and was different in a good way from the other Daytonas. And having the subdials with a contrasting hand just makes sense. Oh well.

[hellofromthebay]

Originally Posted by Chadridv

Not a huge change, especially compared to the retirement of the green Daytona and meteorite dials, etc. but still Technically a discontinued reference and brought back with, what I feel is a big change to the dial. The red seconds hand always made this dial For me.

(Also apologies if this has been covered already)

Feels like a huge change. They ruined it imo. It went from fun+interesting to vanilla.

[GotRolex]

Daytona has a busy dial. Removing a red hand and black hands on subdials made it even worse


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[brandrea]

Originally Posted by tifosi

I think removing the black subdial hands is worse.

Have to agree

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by hellofromthebay

Feels like a huge change. They ruined it imo. It went from fun+interesting to vanilla.

Yeah, I mean I basically agree with you. It is a small detail that has a big impact.

[strettyend]

Noticed this so definitely keeping mine with the red seconds hand.

Also noticed on the 116508ln OF with champagne dial and black sub registers they removed the black around the indicies. That’s one of my favorite things about my watch. Pretty underwhelmed with the new Daytonas…

[JSolution]

Originally Posted by tifosi

I think removing the black subdial hands is worse.

Yeah that looks really
Bad compared to the old one!

[Santiago32]

The new one is ugly. Does anyone know if ADs will still receive previous models?

[Jackie Daytona]

That’s a let down. One of the variants of the Daytona I liked. Definitely a downgrade, much cooler as they had before.

[Santiago32]

I'm bummed out about this. I am going to have to put my interest towards another Daytona.