Ben Clymer

And the Daytona is the quickest way in my mind to get in there.

And then as somebody who is obsessive about things, as you can imagine, being that I started a blog about watches and now here we are, the Daytona has the most interesting history in the sense that it is and it was not produced.

The movement was not produced by Rolex until relatively recently in the 2000s.

Whereas everything else almost from day one was produced by Rolex.

So the Datejust, the Day-Date, the Submariner, GMP, those were all Rolex movements.

Daytona was not, which I think is just fascinating.

And it gives you something to do.

So in younger years, when I was taking the subway, I would time how long my subway ride was or how long it took to cook the chicken in the oven, et cetera.

But ultimately the idea of a professional watch, which is Rolex sports watches with a dial that didn't have to be black.

All the other ones are black.

GMP is a black dial.

Submariner is black dial.

Aesthetically was different.

It was also smaller than most of the sports watches with the exception of the Explorer, which is a 36 millimeter watch.

And it just had a lot of story that went with it.

One of which, of course, being the fact that Paul Newman himself wore one.

And that's, of course, the most expensive wristwatch ever sold, not for charity.

There's just so much about the Daytona.

But on a personal level, it came down to the aesthetics, the connection to motorsport, and then just simply the story behind it, that it was really not a success at all.

And chronographs, whether it was Rolex, Hoyer, Patek, anybody...