Fresh from the showcase here at SwissWatchExpo. Today,
we are highlighting a Panerai Radiomir, which is big red and rare.
To be a fan of Panerai means you have to be a fan of really big cushion-shaped sports
watches. So assuming you've bought into that, this is one of the most spectacular
and visually stunning Panerai, as I've seen. This is the Radiomir Oro Rosso,
which means just red gold and Italian. And you can see why they called it that because this
is a big old rose gold piece. 47 millimeters wide with a chocolate brown dial, which is a very rare
color. Panerai rarely does this. I don't really see this color in any other models at all. So
you can get some rose gold Panerai with a black dial, but with this beautiful chocolate dial,
which blends beautifully with it, you've gotta get it in the Oro Rosso, which is a limited
edition to 300 pieces. So I'm gonna go ahead and get it upfront and say, this is a very rare item.
There are not many of these out there for sale at all, because there weren't that many of them
made at all. Now to be a fan of this, you gotta be a fan of big cases. And at 47 millimeters,
which is a pretty standard size for the Radiomir now, but by any and all metrics,
it's a big watch huge wrist presence. The lugs are pretty short compared to the height of the case,
so that might sort of mask the size of it. But at this diameter, it's gonna be a big watch no
matter how you slice it. As 47-millimeter cases go, it is relatively thin because this does have
a beautiful manual winding movement. This is not an automatic watch but it is a GMT watch,
which is interesting considering the layout here. This does have a very
simple minimalist sandwich dial, which is my favorite kind of dial that Panerai does.
So you do get the second timezone with the GMT hand, but this is on the same 12-hour
scale as the regular watch face. You don't have the 24-hour bezel or even a ring around
the outside of the dial. They kept this very clean-looking, which I think is a great choice
design-wise. But it such this might not be a true GMT or function like some other GMTs that may or
may not be in your collection, depending on what brands you're a fan of. But again, simple dial,
I like the extra hand. It is not distracting even if you do have to get used to sort of
reading that on a 12-hour scale. And you do have Panerai's signature second-hand here at
9 o'clock and the date window at 3. So a pretty balanced dial especially with this extra hand,
depending on what time it is showing. Really clean-looking.
And again, I just love this bronze chocolatey color against the rose gold. This is a dial
that they use so rarely, and I really wish you could see more of them, but it just heightens how
special and exclusive this particular watch is. Now, something else about the Oro Rosso
that I really love is the movement itself. And I obviously love a good exhibition caseback as
most watch aficionados do. But this is one of the most beautiful movements I have ever seen.
I'm not really, I'm not a watchmaker by trade, obviously, but you'll see the gold pieces of the
way that they use the bridge, the layout. This is a very carefully designed movement and this
really feels like a movement that was designed with aesthetics in mind. This is really something
like this deserves an exhibition caseback, and I can see why Panerai did not want to even include
a rotor or an automatic winding movement that could even block the vision of this.
This is such a spectacular piece and you'll know it if looking at the front doesn't tell you,
Looking through this beautiful clear caseback exposing this movement,
it is an absolute sight to behold. Again, because this is a pretty dressy clean Panerai,
certainly not one that you could really imagine being worn underneath the ocean or actually
used as a dive watch. This does have a beautiful alligator strap, here again, a beautiful tannish
brown color, which I think goes great with the motif of this entire watch here. Again,
we don't have any black colors. These are all earth tone sort of all over this watch, which
I think is great. If you are a fan of rose gold, if you really want to lean into that sort of warm
summer color that you get from the red gold here, it's across basically all facets of this watch.
And it is beautiful from all over and again, very rare. This is the first one I believe
we've ever gotten in our inventory with only 300 of these ever made. Who is to say when
the next time you're gonna see them. So if you want an exclusive timepiece,
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