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SIHH 2013: Panerai PAM524 Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback 44mm

 

Officine Panerai presents the Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback, a new  chronograph with a flyback function and an automatic movement with a power reserve of three days. Available  in a purely sports version in steel or as a more elegant one in red gold, the new  chronograph is the first to be made by Officine Panerai  using the new  P.9100 calibre,  developed and produced entirely  in the House’s manufacture in Neuchâtel.





The flyback function, controlled by a push-button at eight o’clock, instantly returns the chronograph hands to zero and simultaneously restarts without it being necessary first to stop them and return them to zero  by pressing the stop and reset buttons. To make the times clear and easy to read, the chronograph minutes and seconds hands are both positioned centrally on the main dial and distinguished from each  other by  being different colours: the  seconds hand  is blue  while  the minute hand  is steel  or gold  in colour, advancing instantly in one  jump  every  60  seconds. This choice of colours makes it possible to preserve the  quintessential design for the  black  dial, with simple bar  hour  markers and  numerals at the  cardinal points, a date  window at three o’clock and  a small seconds dial at nine o’clock. The structure of the  dial is that  designed by Panerai  in the late 1930s  to ensure high visibility even  in very low lighting  conditions, and it is formed of two superimposed plates,  the upper one  being perforated corresponding to the markers on the dial so that the luminescence of the Super-LumiNova® can emerge.

The  case  of  the  new   Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback is 44mm in diameter and water-resistant to 10 bar (about 100 metres), or 5 bar (about 50 metres) in the gold  version. The materials used are of absolute excellence: the steel is AISI 316L stainless steel, extremely resistant to corrosion, and the red gold is 5Npt, an alloy with a high percentage of copper, which gives the colouring greater intensity, and  a proportion of platinum, which helps  to  prevent any oxidation. Executed in the  same case  material and  with  a brushed finish, the  characteristic bridge device with  its lever  for sealing  the  winding crown helps  to ensure the  high degree of water-resistance of the watch.

On the back of the case, the 12-sided caseback has at its centre a sapphire window which reveals the manufacture P.9100 movement. This is the first automatic chronograph calibre developed and made by Officine Panerai,  and  its sophisticated construction is revealed by numerous details.  It has a vertical clutch, a column wheel, two spring barrels connected in series which give the watch a power reserve of three days,  a rotor which winds the springs of the barrels by moving in both directions, and a variable  inertia balance which oscillates at 28,800 alternations/hour. Consisting of 302 components, the movement is 13¾ lignes in diameter and 8.15 mm thick.

The  Luminor  1950 3 Days Chrono  Flyback (PAM00524) and  the  Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono  Flyback  Oro Rosso (PAM00525) are part  of the  Contemporary Collection. The steel model is supplied with a black  leather strap and the red gold one with a brown alligator  strap.  The straps are easily changed by means of the button fitted in the lug of the watch, which is operated by the special tool provided.


LUMINOR 1950 3 DAYS CHRONO FLYBACK - 44mm


Movement:   Automatic mechanical, Panerai P.9100   calibre,   executed  entirely   by   Panerai, 13¾ lignes,  8.15 mm thick,  37 jewels,  Glucydur® balance, 28,800  alternations/hour. KIF Parechoc® anti-shock device. Power reserve 3 days, two barrels. 302 components.

Functions:   Hours, minutes, small   seconds, date, flyback chronograph, seconds reset.

Case:  Diameter 44   mm,   AISI  316L  brushed steel.  Brushed steel  buttons with  engraving for the chronograph functions at 8 and 10 o’clock.

Bezel: Polished steel.

Back: See-through sapphire crystal.

Device protecting the crown: (protected as trademark) Brushed steel.

Dial: Black  with  luminous Arabic  numerals and hour   markers. Date   at  3  o’clock, seconds at
9  o’clock,  central chronograph  seconds  and minutes hands.

Crystal: Sapphire, made of corundum, 1.8 mm thick. Anti-reflective coating.

Water-resistance: 10 bar (~ 100 metres).

Strap:  PANERAI   personalized  leather  strap and  trapezoidal brushed steel  buckle. Supplied with  a second interchangeable strap,  a tool  for changing the strap and a steel screwdriver.

Reference: PAM00524











P.9100


The  P.9100 calibre  is the  first automatic movement with  chronograph functions developed by Officine Panerai  and it is produced entirely  in the Officine Panerai  manufacture in Neuchâtel, with materials and standards of workmanship at the peak  of the sector in terms of technology, quality and reliability.

With  a chronograph with  a vertical clutch and  column wheel, the  new  calibre  is unusual in that the  chronograph minutes are displayed by a central hand  which jumps forward once every  60 seconds. It also has the  useful  flyback function. This enables the  chronograph hands which are already running to be returned instantaneously to zero  and restarted without it being necessary first  to  stop them and  return them to  zero,  then  to  restart them. This function is controlled by the  push-button at  eight  o’clock, which is also  used  to  return both hands to  zero  when the chronograph has already stopped.

The  P.9100 calibre  is 13¾ lignes  (31 mm) in diameter, it is 8.15 mm thick,  it has  37 jewels  and it is made up of 302 components. The two spring  barrels in series  give  a power reserve of 72 hours, equivalent to  three days.  The  choice of the  double spring  barrel  enables thinner, longer springs to be used,  which is beneficial for the duration and evenness of the supply of energy. The automatic winding is carried out  by a bidirectional rotor on  ball-bearings operating two narrow arms  terminating with  hooks, which wind  the  springs of the  barrels with  every  movement of the rotor itself. Supported by a single bridge with  a KIF Parechoc® anti-shock device, the Glucydur® balance wheel oscillates at 28,800 alternations/hour (equivalent to 4hz) and it is the variable inertia type,  with  the  regulation carried out  by adjusting four  square-headed screws fitted in the  outer perimeter of the balance wheel; the spring  is therefore free, without the curb  pins which can be a source of irregular timekeeping.

Functions
•     Hours, minutes, small seconds
•     Date
•     Chronograph flyback
•     Seconds reset

Technical specifications
•     Automatic winding
•     Power reserve of 3 days
•     302 components
•     37 jewels
•     13¾ lignes in diameter
•     8.15 mm thick
•     Two spring  barrels
•     Column wheel
•     Vertical  clutch
•      Oscillation frequency 4 Hz
•     KIF Parechoc® anti-shock device




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