Officine Panerai

My journey of Submersion

 

I've always found a diving watch w/ rotatable bezel to be the perfect watch that represents Panerai, a brand with such a strong association w/ military divers...

[Picture courtesy of some auction catalogs years ago, I believe]

Here I guess one can see that Panerai were indeed kicking around the idea of having a dive timer early on...

My first submersible was a PAM25, then quickly followed w/ the PAM64, the Bomba...

I was VERY smittened w/ the tuna can design of the PAM64, especially w/ the helium release valve...

Here in the early days...

Now w/ the full patina dial!

I like the tuna can so much that I owned the PAM87 as well at one point...

Obviously when they rolled out the 2500m version, I had to have it...

Now also w/ the full glory of aged patina...

Here we have the beautiful anthracite dial of the PAM106.   Still in love w/ the old design bracelet.

 

 

PAM389 Amag was a good idea, but it just wasn't getting her fair share of wrist time among the other subs...

Then it came the Bronzo!    Believe or not, I actually turned it down initially when I was offered one, as I didn't like the idea of gold coloured watch in Panerai, from my days of PAM289.   But boy I was so wrong, when I started to see pictures from fellow owners on their wonderfully aged case...

This message has been edited by Jester on 2014-05-11 06:45:43