Officine Panerai

I’ve got a 6.5 inch flat wrist, and I’m very interested in adding a 372 to the stable, but worry about it wearing like a heavy hockey puck. Would love to get some reassuring feedback from some purists. Thanks in advance. Hussam Photo borrowed from the web...  

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I’ll post some grainy old photos of my prior 359, which seemed to stretch the definition of what size PAM I could wear. Will be eager to hear your thoughts

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So I worry about my 16.5 cm wrist falling short 😆

36mm Breguet Classiques, 38 mm Blancpain Lemans, 39 mm Speedmaster Reduced, 36mm Seamasters - all have lug-lug of ~44mm or less. Some 40mm watches. It's all in how they drape on the wrist for me. When they drape well, cuffs love them and they don't spin o... 

I've 17 cms but rounded wrist and 372 goes well....probably the only Panerai I could say I miss. 372 had 2 versions, earlier ones with Plexi and the later one with Sapphire - Plexi is the best IMHO, but both looks great. If it is a Radiomir 47mm, then it ...  

. So your approval really eggs me on. Looks like you had some nice family moments when you had it. That’s important Was yours plexy?

If my memory serves well, starting 'S' series it is Sapphire, from launch until 'R' it is Plexi.

. It left me in 2015, so the phone photo resolution didn’t leave much to work with (in terms of resolutions of cropped images) But you get the idea: 44mm was already stretching the limit ...  

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and I've bought a hole truckload of 47mm. I've read, though, that anything starting from 15.5/16 it's good enough to wear one. I've also associated a big Panerai with attitude not wrist (unless you have truly a pencil one)

But there is a limit to the wrist+watch size discrepancy I’ve worn 44mm PAM’s before, at different case and crystal thickness, and that seemed to be my limit

...it's in your head, in the "conventions" you've been living under the influence of. Unless you have a truly puny wrist (but if you did, we wouldn't be here, debating) you only have to open your mind a litte. I.M.O.

Sergio willnot like this model… 😅 Anyway, it is my 40mm PAM125… ☺️ ...  

brain and a touch of Asperger. The only abomination about the 125 is the name....Panerai....on it. Any other brand and I would (if it came to that) consider it on it's own merit: like don't like, with no sense of horror "clouding" my mind Lollllllllllllll... 

The 372 sits very well but it's as big as I can handle... ...  

But I tend to wear my watches for a week at a time (including at work), so I worry about me reaching out for it less and less, as time goes. I wouldn’t want it to get relegated to a vacation watch Here’s a friend’s 44mm PAM 233, which also wore too big an...  

This is my PAM 0010. Along with my son’s starter watch. ...  

Is the PAM 010 47mm?

Recently I visited one of my favorite Panerai SAs and his take on my situation was that they were giant military watches so basically there's no such thing as too big. Hmm.. Seems to me that at some point there is such a thing as too big. So I bought a 44... 

I was previously enamored with an-even smaller PAM (233) but couldn’t rock it because it wore too big. So it’s looking like the 372 is a no-go, which makes me sad ...  

Same wrist size (16cm), same desired PAMs (233 and 372 or something in that realm), same disappointment that makes me, every year or two, start thinking again, "Maybe I can do it...."

372 was the last new PAM I bought, I got one very early from the Boutique. Plexi, and it looked very cool. Still does. I owned several 47mm PAMs in my day, the 372 was the last of them. In reality, too big for my little wrist. No question. It’s hard to fi...  

Your last photo makes it look super cool. It’s interesting how you were using the Bloomberg platform back then; my wife just started working for them in their non financial offerings. While you’re awesome photos do do it justice, the watch does look big o... 

I owned a lot of Panerai in the 2000s, and 44mm was pretty normal. I also owned several 47mm PAMs (Luminors and Rads) but none got a lot of wrist time, the same for the 372. At that time I owned both a Big Pilot and JLC Extreme World Chrono, both 46.5mm i... 

Sergio is right. Not about the wrist size but a matter of attitude. I don’t feel self conscious wearing mine. And there’s nothing quite like a 47mm Panerai when you’re feeling like you really just don’t give a f*ck 🙂 ...  

. Is that a plexiglass?

knew his stuff all right. He's the one that said: less is more. No matter how many pictures I've seen of the 372, through the years, I never fail to just....admire it.

Personally, I don't like lugs sticking too far out of my wrist. Pam Luminor and 1950 case in 44mm work best for me. Have a look at my 372 and 87 and you will get what I meant. I think how the watch looks (not just on the wrist.) on a person also depends o...