.. that it's great to hear that parts for the 6497 are available outside of Panerai. My Pam 22 is now going to be gone for 10 weeks in total. The mainspring mount broke, so needed to be sent to them and of course also get a full service. The €740 aside, it's mind boggling that I have to be without m
Very helpful and honest input. Much appreciated FWIW, I agree with that it feels like that the Panerai hype cycle fueled some wild product management decisions. As a company, they would have been better off by taking a page from the Ferrari/Porsche/Hermes playbook and kept supply of watches down whi
... on the contrary your directness and clairty was very helpful! I still love the look of the 504, but I want to use my watches and we have three sons so hopefully they'll want to wear them some day. They will have to accept some patina, but a cracking case will never look good compared to a slight
Hi John, thank you so much for providing more detail. I should have thought about the issue of aluminum being a "soft" substrate. I use my watches, so this the sum of these constraints kill the idea regardless of how much I love that dark chocolate finish. It's now down to finding the right 232 then
Thanks for your input. I have indeed seen a couple used 504 with what looks like cracks in the black coating. On photos it's hard to say if this is dirt or cracks but sounds like these might be cracks. Have noticed that 232s have started to dry up. For a while there were always 10-12 listings on chr
Thank you for warning me about the composites, much appreciated. What are some examples of circumstances or wrong usage? I read somewhere that they are sensitive to soap for instance. The 375 is indeed a very nice looking watch. Agree on T-dials > L-dials from an aesthetic point of view. I wanted my