some of my favorite Panerai watches coming up of SwissWatchExpo.
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Fresh from the Showcase here at SwissWatchExpo I'm Michael and I've got a couple of my favorite
Panerai and this is really a labor of love because not only am I a huge fan of Panerai I've got three
of them myself but I always need to add one more to my collection I guess that makes me a Paneristi
but these are just some of the coolest ones that I've seen I love the movements in these watches
they were extremely limited production they only made 300 examples of each one of these and we
happen to have both of them at the same time so had to absolutely jump down and do the video on
them but as far as something that is potentially a great collector's item for you within Panerai
something that they only made 300 examples of that has this complicated of a movement because a lot
of times in Panerai yeah the complications tend to be a second hand the date maybe a GMT maybe a
chronograph but these movements they were really pushing in the early 2000s to set themselves apart
with their in-house movements to be extremely innovative and these are watches that when they
were originally sold the list price on them was about 21,500 so it's a lot of watch for the money
here on the secondary Market at SwissWatchExpo when you look at these they're the the standard
34 millimeter luminor the title of the watch is just a huge mouthful but it's the Luminor Marina
GMT Monopulsante so that means you have single pusher power reserve either in ceramic or titanium
so they went all out on these the ceramic is about five times harder than steel and so you don't have
to worry about scuffing it or chipping it or anything like that if you're the kind of person
who does well with a sapphire crystal and you're able to not damage the sapphire crystal you're
not going to damage the ceramic either but it's a lot lighter than steel and it has this great
dark black Luster to it where you do see some reflection on it bur it's a matte black that it
looks so much better to me than PVD and of course PVD can be a little bit fragile this is a black
ceramic it's polished and it is the same color all the way through so you're not going to have
any of those PVD issues with it the titanium one of course there's no kind of plating or anything
on it either you've got a high polished bezel and then a matte finish for the rest of the case
and it's also of course lighter than steel and stronger and so either one they've just made some
great design choices as well as material choices one of the things that I love about them is they
have this very retro looking domed sapphire crystal so it looks a lot like the vintage
Panerai watches from the 1940s and 50s that used Plexiglass that was really thick and so you got
a little bit of distortion from that and when you look at it from the profile you see that that big
domed Crystal of course it's made out of sapphire now so you don't have to worry about the scratches
but it's such a cool look and then the dial itself it's the sandwich dial so it has a luminous plate
behind a dial that's got sort of stenciled cutouts over it and so it glows really bright
everything is fully lumed it's not just a couple of things here and there everything from the Pyro
Reserve indicator the hacking seconds the 24 hour indicator it's all brightly brightly loomed and
so this thing's going to be as completely legible in the dark as it is here in the full light of day
now one of the things that I love about the movement it is an eight-day movement an eight-day
power reserve it has three barrels so it will run for a week without you rewinding it so this would
be great if you've got multiple watches in your collection and you want to just wind this watch
once a week I tend to wind my watches on Sundays and reset everything it's just kind of fun and
that way I keep all the oils moving but on this watch if you wound it once a week it would just
be ready to wear all the time and by having the power reserve indicator at the bottom they call
that some places call it a dog's tooth a dog's fang shark's fang shark's tooth but it's the
design of the indicator on the eight day power reserve as you wind the watch it moves its way
to the right and as it uses the power it moves back to the left and so you always know how much
it is there it's sort of interesting in other watches that have long power reserves unless
there's a power reserve indicator you would end up just habitually winding it more and more because
you never know how much it's got but with these watches it's going to tell you right up front
the Monopussoir or monopulsante as a Panerai calls it being Italian it's the one pusher
here down at the eight o'clock indicator you push this one button to start the chronograph
and you can see the chronograph hand starts and then stop and reset all on the same button so
it has a great look to it you get away from the big pushers here around the crown guards it's a
complicated movement it's great that they put that design in there one of the things about it is that
it is a vertical clutch chronograph movement so you can leave that second hand running all
the time if you want to and not have to worry about any kind of extra wear on the movement it
is a column wheel chronograph so it's got that really nice touch to it where it immediately
starts when you press the button the GMT hand is the the smaller hour hand and of course you can
adjust that independently from the hour hand on the the main local time but it also shows
you at the nine o'clock subdial it has a seconds hand the running seconds for the watch but also
a 24-hour indicator so it tells you whether your second time zone is in the AM or PM range now this
watch does not have a date which is fine with me I really do would not prefer it to have a date since
the dial is already pretty busy I wouldn't add that but it makes it a little easier to set the
GMT because you don't have to even worry about the date one of the things that's cool about
this one for a lot of people they'll call me and they'll ask whether certain Panerai watches have
a hacking mechanism or not because for the same model number a lot of times they would include
it or not include it but the great thing about this one when you pull the crown out if you'll
watch the second hand there at nine o'clock you'll see that when I pull the crown out it
resets the second hand to zero so not only is it hacking but as I pull it out it is reset to 12 or
to zero and that way if I'm using this to set it against some sort of reference time like time.gov
it does that exactly to the second and then when I push it back in the second hand starts again of
course it's got this patented crown guard which is great it gives you a really big crown that you can
easily manipulate unlike the Rolex or Omega dive watches you don't have to try to thread it and
screw it back down you just pop open this lever and it's ready to use and that's great for a watch
that you're going to line every week but it's a big crown that's easy to use now on the caseback
we'll flip this one over and show you what's going on on the back of course it's got a matching tang
buckle and if I can get it out of this thick leather strap when we can actually open it up
and take a look at the movement there we go so on the ceramic one it's a smoked sapphire crystal on
the titanium one it is clear and you can see that beautiful movement though but of course
there's no rotor you can see the vertical clutch you can see that it's noted that it has the three
barrels and then it's an eight day power reserve again they only made 300 of each of these so even
if you've already got a few Panerai I think this would be a great addition to anybody's collection
I already have three and this would still be a great addition to my collection but even if
you don't have one at all and you want to just jump right in and become a Paneristi yourself
either one of these would be a great entry level Panerai as well because for a watch that
originally retailed at 21,500 to just jump in with both feet as they say this would be a fantastic
pick but give us a call here at SwissWatchExpo we're happy to go over all the current choices
of Panerai we keep dozens and dozens of them in stock all the time a lot more than when I
used to work for the parent company Richmond than I ever saw them for sale in one place at
one time so give us a call and we'll be happy to go over what our current collection looks like