Panerai : A growing family

Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Oro Rosso
Case: 18K polished red gold with see-through sapphire crystal case-back Diameter: 44 mm Movement: self-winding mechanical movement (Calibre P.9100 with 3-day power reserve), 2 barrels, 302 components Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, flyback chronograph, seconds reset  Dial: black with applied luminous hour markers Water-resistance: 50 m Strap: personalised alligator leather strap and 18K polished red gold buckle, supplied with a second interchangeable strap and a steel screwdriver

Amongst the innovations presented at the SIHH at the beginning of the year, Panerai impressed its fans with a new titanium pocket watch with an openworked movement equipped with a tourbillon and dual time display, while also extending its ranges with meticulous care. New materials, new case dimensions, new movements: the choice is ever-expanding and the quality higher than ever. By way of example, Calibre P9100, the first self-winding chronograph movement entirely designed and produced by Panerai, equipped with a column wheel and a vertical coupling-clutch, is housed within a perfectly reasonably sized 44 mm case, available in steel and red gold. The intensity of this most recent version, enriched with copper and platinum, combined with the intrinsic personality of the Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback, gives this timepiece incomparable charisma, heightened by the blue split-second hand. Panerai’s DNA is perpetually renewed with great constancy and efficiency.


Brice Lechevalier is editor-in-chief of GMT and Skippers, which he co-founded in 2000 and 2001 respectively. He has also been CEO of WorldTempus since it joined the GMT Publishing stable, of which he is director and joint shareholder. In 2012 he created the Geneva Watch Tour, and he has been an advisor to the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève since 2011. Also closely involved in sailing, he has published the magazine of the Société Nautique de Genève since 2003, and was one of the founders of the SUI Sailing Awards in 2009 and the Concours d’Elégance for motor boats at the Cannes Yachting Festival in 2015.

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