Officine Panerai

Hi all,

I bought PAM270 in the middle of last year 2008, it ran accurately for just 2 weeks then stopped in the middle of my shopping with friends. It was kind of disappointing when I think about it.... the watch is fully wound (automatic), and I wore it everyday, I paid top of the range for Panerai in-house movement, so called high quality and precision and so on, but I experienced is unacceptable. Why paid nearly AUS$20K for a defective watch???

I took it back to the shop, they promised to send it back to check it for me. I waited for 4 months for the reply. The retailer said that the local service centre are not equipped to check it, so they had to send it to Hong Kong or finally send it back to Switzerland.

After a long wait of 5 months, finally they replaced a brand new one for me. When I heard of the news... it was kind of mixed feelings. I asked why? they cannot fixed the defective one? or is the movement a bad one at all!! However, I told myself that was okay, they at least replaced a brand new one for me and I was hoping the new PAM 270 will run better.

After all these hassles, I was happy with the new PAM 270 for just about 7 weeks only. AGAIN!!! It happened again!!! Damn! The 2nd one stopped. It is an in-house automatic movement and it was full wound to 10 days. Why did it stop again? I am really speechless with the so called hi-tech in-house movement now.

Any one out there has the same problem? What would be your reaction? Especially the watch isn't come with a cheap price tag. or Am I the only one with double the unluckiness or even triple?

Regards,

KHY