Officine Panerai

Who's the fairest of them all? With the release of 662/663, OP will soon enter a new era of dial colour! So I'm taking this opportunity to try to recap the Panerai shades of brown: The white balance settings on these shots are not consistent so I'll try t...  

After going thru these pictures, I think the fairest of them would be a close tie between the 198, 203 & 339, what do you think? ...  

Tough to capture its brownish dial... ...  

In the Vendome era... Now, in the vintage... This one is unbeatable, for me... ...  

I think a new watch with this dial would need to have patinaed hands to make it work. Otherwise it'll look awkward IMO. Cheers, Anthony ...  

This dial looks more like a natural progression in terms of patina on the dial & the fading of colour whereas Vlad's preference almost looks like the watch was exposed excessively under the sun for long period of time... Obviously just MY opinion! ...  

to be quite closed to the 117 I pictured above... I guess I need to dig one up to do a better comparison?

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do not do much justice to the dial.. Looking forward to your next...effort Ciao

The PAM203 brown dial was too gray for me, and the PAM21 brown dial was too black and hardly brown. - AT

I think I like the mint chocolate chip "look"... But the combination on the 390 is a great combo as well

I like that phrase!

But my Risti buddy Hawaiian Timer introduced the phrase when describing those dial combos