Officine Panerai

davilo
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great points all...it's clear to me as a watch company like panerai

and with their need to build the product, you can never go back and recreate the original 26, 301A, 201A (for example) in its original form and design.  If that was done, that would signal Panerai is willing to manufacture to old spec and possibly risk dilutiing the value of the original models.  By keeping pieces/parts of attributes from historical models in their new model designs w/o duplicating old models in total, they keep the uniqueness of the vintage models and yet perpetuate the swag of Panerai's past in all their new models.  

At what point does every combination variation of history in new model designs become repetitive/redundant and not so collectable anymore to watch "collectors", (I certainly am not a collector but have a small collection)  In some ways I feel like the bettor of a nyc street shell game of Panerai variations, always drawn back to for a new game each time I lose.  Not that I lose with Panerai, but I'm always striving to get the real deal (historic/preVendome watch) and never quite get there.

So I'll hopefully end up getting the 26 and the 322 and fall passionately happy with for its design as it is, but never quite make it to that holy grail of original Panerai watches.

 I'm truly torn: amused, frustrated and excited at the same time.  When does this madness stop?

-David