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- ▶ 2:26:16 Ben Gilbert The Rolex Daytona flop at first.
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- ▶ 0:02 David Rosenthal Well, currently on the wrist is my stainless white-faced Daytona that my dad gave me.
- ▶ 0:16 Ben Gilbert I'm actually also wearing a Daytona that I am borrowing from a good friend of the show.
- ▶ 9:23 David Rosenthal When you buy a Submariner or a Daytona or even a Datejust, you are not buying Swiss history here.
- ▶ 2:29:59 Ben Gilbert Okay, so David, the Rolex Daytona.
- ▶ 2:30:11 David Rosenthal So, the Daytona, unlike all of Rolex's other watches, is a chronograph, or as they call it, a cosmograph.
- ▶ 2:30:33 Ben Gilbert However complicated you thought a regular mechanical watch was, now add in something like the Daytona, where you also have a full seconds hand on the main dial that counts seconds, and then another dial to count minutes, and then another…
- ▶ 2:30:54 David Rosenthal Yes, there are four dials on the watch face of the Daytona.
- ▶ 2:31:31 David Rosenthal And to commemorate this great moment, the next year in 1963, Rolex officially starts calling their chronographs, which again, they've been making for like three decades at this point, Daytonas.
- ▶ 2:31:58 Ben Gilbert What's better than Daytona?
- ▶ 2:32:45 David Rosenthal And his equally famous wife, the actress Joanne Woodward, gifts him with a Rolex Daytona of his very own for his racing activities with the immortal inscription on the back, drive carefully dash me.
- ▶ 2:34:38 David Rosenthal The Paul Newman Daytona.
- ▶ 2:34:51 David Rosenthal And at the time, the market such as it existed for Daytona's, the secondary market for Daytona's, it was like a 200 dollar watch.
- ▶ 2:40:13 Ben Gilbert Trickled out into the rest of the Daytonas.
- ▶ 2:40:15 Ben Gilbert It made any Daytona extremely desirable.
- ▶ 2:43:44 David Rosenthal And the Daytona was part of that.
- ▶ 2:44:25 Ben Gilbert But you couldn't buy a Daytona.
- ▶ 2:44:48 David Rosenthal The Daytona is, I think, the only model where there is no waitlist.
- ▶ 2:45:17 David Rosenthal You know, if you go browse the forums, the lingo that I read is the Daytona is not a waitlist.
- ▶ 2:45:36 David Rosenthal Whereas with a Daytona, it's like, yeah, you can express desire.
- ▶ 3:33:32 David Rosenthal Submariner or Daytona.
- ▶ 3:51:50 Ben Gilbert Yep.
- ▶ 3:58:43 Ben Gilbert Steel Daytonas, sure.
- ▶ 4:09:37 Ben Gilbert I mean, you look at the rainbow dial Daytona.
- ▶ 4:53:15 Ben Gilbert It is etching a very specialized and precise type of gear that in the Rolex Daytona ensures