The name Panda is bestowed on any watch with a white dial and black subdials at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock, an arrangement that resembles the face of a panda with a white fur face and black eyes and nose.
Many brands have Pandas in their catalogues, but the most famous is the Rolex Daytona, which debuted in 1963. Some 60 years later, it has become the world’s most sought-after watch model. The six or seven earliest Daytona references, whose numbers all begin with 62, were followed in 1988 by the Zenith (with a Zenith movement), which was produced until 2000. Daytonas since then have contained Rolex movements, and in 2016 the model was relaunched with a Cerachrom bezel.
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