Daytona Appreciation - Post Your Daytona Pics & Opinion

[Reaps]

Question for the vintage Daytona buffs on this thread!

I recently bought a JKF 6263 Big Red Silver. Pic below. I've been seeing, however, JKF Daytonas advertised across the rep forums that look slightly different - namely, the subdials look a tiny bit smaller and are moved into the center of the dial just a little bit. You'll also see that the "T Swiss T" is moved up closer to the subdial. See 2nd pic below. These seem very common lately.

I'm wondering - are there different "batches" of the JKF Daytonas? Or is the 2nd example not JKF? I'm certain the first one is JKF, as it was bought from @mclarendude and I trust a mod of this forum more than QCs and random users across the various M2Ms out there. That said - the second example does look a bit more similar to gen, so wondering whether I'm missing something.

Thanks y'all!

The Daytona I bought:

An example of a "JKF Daytona" from a recent QC post:

Special Offer: Vintage Rolex Daytona 6263/6265/6238/6239/6241 Series

https://forum.replica-watch.info/for...-order-and-pay All models available for choice: https://imgur.com/a/PjJEu Normal price: 268USD for SS models; 288USD for YG models Special price: 220USD for SS models; 240USD for YG models Daytona 6263 SS Case White Dial on Oyster Bracelet Venus 75...

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Look at the 6263 on Marv's page - which is first batch JKF. Looks exactly the same as yours.

 

[Hasslebank]

 

[lawrence34]

This model really exists or existed. If so, I was completely unaware of it.

 

[Perpetual_One]

Shining in the Dubai sunshine. Only place I’ve seen gens of this in the wild.

 

[Paolo1966]

 

[Messi]

An appropriate watch for Solar Eclipse day

 

[Tompa]

Pick your poison A,B or C ?

 

[Iceballer]

Pick your poison A,B or C ?

Which one do you wear the most now? And damn, is it me or does the new model look way bigger than the older one? And out of curiosity, did you get the deep crystal on the 11 panda model?

For me it's the middle one, B, for the panda btw!

 

[Messi]

D: all of the above.

the only correct answer

 

[Tompa]

Which one do you wear the most now? And damn, is it me or does the new model look way bigger than the older one? And out of curiosity, did you get the deep crystal on the 11 panda model?

For me it's the middle one, B, for the panda btw!

Still wear my old friend 520 most 126 its a beauty for sure, but it dosent feel like a Daytona, cant realy say yet how i feel for the 126, but i look at my wrist all the time i have it on so it must be a good thing right i love them all in different ways. and the crystal on the clean 116 is a BTF crystal

 

[Submariner23]

Pick your poison A,B or C ?

C
A
B
and the important thing….keep them all

 

[aHero]

Pick your poison A,B or C ?

C A B but C and A are close.

 

[tomriddle]

already waitlisted

at least 9 months from what my AD said but realistically it's probably gonna be 2-3 years if that once established customers start pre-ordering

not gonna lie.. these go hard



I want my Blingtona

diamond bezel, meteorite? stones? on oysterflex?! IT GOES HARD!!!

 

[Oascom]

 

[aHero]

 

[Reaps]

already waitlisted

at least 9 months from what my AD said but realistically it's probably gonna be 2-3 years if that once established customers start pre-ordering

not gonna lie.. these go hard



I want my Blingtona

diamond bezel, meteorite? stones? on oysterflex?! IT GOES HARD!!!

All i want is for Rolex to put the glidelock on the Daytona, at least do it for the Oysterflex, they did it for the new Yachtmasters....

 

[Hasslebank]

 

[Submariner23]

So much better with an Xing/Deep Bezel/Crystal upgrade…
My second build is done

 

[MFK100]

Very impressed!

 

[Hasslebank]