Panerai unveiled a host of new timepieces at its “Dive Into Time” event in Florence last week. We’ve already looked at one — the groundbreaking Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon GMT — and this week we turn our gaze to another, the Panerai Radiomir Firenze 3 Days Accaiaio – 47MM, a ticking, breathtakingly decorated tribute to the city of Florence, where the Panerai brand watch for sale was born more than a century ago.
The Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT price , inspired by a vintage watch used by the Italian navy, features the brand’s P.9001 in-house movement. WatchTime put both wristwatch and caliber to the test in this feature from the WatchTime archives. Scroll down for the full report, accompanied by Nik Schölzel’s stunning original photos.
Remember that rather stunning-looking Radiomir PAM604 with the hand-engraved case that we showed you hands-on last April? Well, if you thought that was cool, then you’ll be glad to hear that Panerai is upping the ante with the new Panerai Radiomir Firenze 3 Days PAM672, a new special edition of just 99 pieces announced today, that now boasts both a hand-engraved stainless steel case as well as a laser-engraved in-house movement.
Panerai tells some great stories (read the top ten Panerai stories here). The Radiomir 1940 PAM00622 looks like a simple two-hand watch with a chocolate brown dial matching a vintage-look leather strap, with a lovely hand-wound 3 Hertz movement visible through the sapphire caseback. And that’s what it is, but it is also a tribute to an unfamiliar episode in the brand’s history.
Panerai has just announced the release of their most highly complicated watch featuring two of their brand new minute repeaters (to chime in two time zones, naturally) and a price tag starting at $400,000 and going up with customizations. Panerai wants to pay tribute to their naval history and this piece is an homage to the significance of bell-tones aboard a vessel out at sea. The Panerai Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT watch also has the distinction of being the first-ever watch with two minute repeaters, and also features a tourbillon and a brand new new movement. They must also be keenly aware that it is a future-grail piece for Paneristis and collectors, and as a result they’re offering something unusual in haute horlogerie: flexibility. The watch is made to order and buyers will be able to customize things not only like the strap but hands and even the material the case is made of.
Breaking the mold by incorporating two minute repeaters for local time and a second time zone, the Panerai Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon Tourbillon GMT employs three hammers to achieve a melody. Initiated via a push-piece at 8 o’clock, the repeater here packs three hammers rather than the traditional two, to allow a combination of tones with the lowest timbre indicating the hour while the highest and latter tones indicate the minutes. In traditional repeaters a triple chime usually indicates a fifteen minute passage but the Carillon utilizes a decimal repeater which chimes 10 minute increments. So, for example a traditional minute repeater would chime 10:28 as ten chimes for the hour, followed by one chime for 15 minutes, followed by 13 chimes for individual minutes. Here, 10:28 is 10 chimes for the hour, two triple chimes, and 8 individual chimes. Note that they decided to use “triple chimes” for the second chime indicating 10-minute sets.