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"You can't kill a Rolex"....

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.....I coined that phrase and Rolex should patent that slogan, but it possibility does not fit their marketing image....but it is true.

I have two Rolex watches in my collection (others are Longines, Brietling, Omega and Breguet.) and I am a person who believes in wearing and enjoying the watch. I can only speak of experience in relation to the two models that I own.

One is a gold Day Date with President Band in yellow gold, the other is gold Daytona with the Rolex gold bracelet.

The Day Date had 15 years of very hard treatment, like boating, farming and also fine dining but what I put that watch through as a daily wearer on boats and farms was incredible. It was often submersed in diesel, grease and dust and accidently banged into everything from glass doors to machinery. The crystal has more chips out of the edges than imaginable.

The Daytona, also worked hard on building sites and farms, but the Daytona only endured around 2 years of hell.

The only problem I have had with both watches was the gold bracelets wore out. Mostly from dust, as in, tractor driving, land clearing etc.

The Daytona band was under two years old and Rolex replaced it free of charge. This was the jolt I needed to buy a cheap watch for work.

I have a high regard for the Daytona, it has a very good power reserve, 72 hours I think, and the design of the watch which is quiet thick, around 12mm, and it seems heavy, but the bracelet is such that it wears smaller than one would think and can easily pass as a dress watch or be rugged enough to handle and situation.

Accepting the fact that the Rolex is everything practical a watch could and should be, the real beauty of a Rolex Daytona with a gold bracelet is in the “feel”.

Even if I take off a Breguet with a soft leather strap, and slip on the Daytona, the feeling of the Daytona with it's gold bracelet is as smooth and soft as silk. It is hard to imagine that the bracelet is metal.

So that’s why my vote would go to Daytona. Looks good feels great.

Kindest regards,

Jack.