Panerai Luminor GMT Power Reserve Ceramica PAM01574

Panerai is the official timekeeper of the Salone del Cell, the most important and most prestigious annual worldwide design truthful held in Milan since 1961. Panerai’s involvement with Milan Design Week is widely known with the discharge of the brand new Lumimor GMT Energy Reserve Ceramica PAM01574. As a product launched in 1949 that retains many authentic design traits, the Luminor is rightfully acknowledged as a permanent Italian design icon.

Luminescence was Panerai’s trump card, and the high-precision devices the Italian model equipped to the Royal Italian Navy outshone all others due to the appliance of a radium-based powder patented as Radiomir. In 1949, poisonous radium was changed with tritium (Luminor), and the well-known Luminor dive watch materialised with its distinctive crown-protection bridge, now the identification card of the Luminor assortment.

Devoted to its ancestor, the most recent Luminor reveals the particular crown protector bridge with its unlocking lever. Its 44mm case is crafted in high-tech black ceramic with modern matte sandblasted finishes and polished accents, for instance, on the crown. Famend for its resistance to scratches and light-weight properties, ceramic isn’t any stranger to Panerai and appeared in 2007 on board the Radiomir Black Seal Ceramica PAM00292. The caseback reveals the motion beneath its smoked sapphire crystal, and the 300m water-resistance has been examined to pressures 25% better than the stipulated 300m.

An indicator of Panerai watches is the sandwich construction of the dial, invented by the model within the late Nineteen Thirties. Two discs are stacked on prime of each other; the decrease disc is roofed with a luminous substance, and the highest disc has holes lower out for the numerals, permitting the luminescent materials to shine by way of.

The blue sunray-brushed dial reveals the decrease disc and its Tremendous-LumiNova coating. The white Tremendous-LumiNova X2 with a inexperienced emission seems from beneath the indices and can be used on the central hour and minute palms and the operating seconds indicator at 9 o’clock. Nevertheless, the facility reserve gauge at 5 o’clock and the arrow-shaped tip of the central 12-hour GMT hand are coated with blue-emission Tremendous-LumiNova. Finishing the dial is the bevelled date window at 3 o’clock.

Powered by the P.9012 computerized calibre, the GMT or second time zone complication is an ideal software for international travellers, permitting at-a-glance consultations of house and native time. Two spring barrels retailer a strong vitality provide of three days or 72 hours and are wound by a bidirectional rotor. When the crown is pulled out, the 4Hz stability wheel stops and the small seconds hand resets to zero. This fast time-setting operate permits the hour hand and date to be adjusted ahead and backward.

The brand new reference PAM01574 is paired with a blue alligator strap, and a second, extra informal rubber strap is supplied within the bundle. Due to the PAM Click on Launch System, the strap and buckle might be simply exchanged with out instruments.

The Luminor GMT Energy Reserve Ceramica PAM01574 retails for EUR 16,800 / CHF 14,800. Extra data at Panerai.com.