I got Paneritis in the fall of 1998 I was walking in Piazza del Duomo in Firenze when I was stopped by my Friend's father to see these crazy amazing looking watches at a wooden store front with green felt on the window display shelves, he explained the history of the watches and how cool they were, took 6 months of begging pleading with my Dad to lend me 1,200 dollars to buy my first PAM 2b