Rolex Daytona case size

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Originally Posted by changkc

The funny is, IMHO, the actual size is of Daytona is 38-39mm, because winding crown and chrono buttons shouldn't be included. If you pick a Sub for example you can see the difference of the size right away.
The same thing with SDDS. Rolex claims 44mm but it's actually 43mm.
I don't know the reason for that. Maybe the rationale is to follow the recent "case enlargement" tendency but not really doing it.


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Simply this with nowadays trend where bigger and heavier always sound better and larger to some plus the mine is bigger than yours syndrome.