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The Invention of the Ancestor

An extract from the forthcoming book The Grail Problem: The Most Famous Watch Nobody Could Buy (part 2).

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Sergio Galanti
Sep 27, 2026
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AI-generated editorial image illustrating the Daytona’s controlled evolution.

Put a Daytona from 1965 beside one from 2023 and something strange happens, and what happens depends on who is looking. To a stranger they are nearly the same watch: round, steel, three small dials, a scale around the rim, a name that means fast cars. To anyone who knows, they …

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