Fresh from the showcase here at SwissWatchExpo,
we've got a couple of 47 millimeter Panerai Oro Rosso Radiomirs. And I'm gonna show you
what the differences between them are. They're fascinating watches.
So we have the Panerai Radiomir 1940 on the right, and we have the original Radiomir on the left.
So what really the difference between these two watches is one of style. Either one works exactly
the same way. They have the same exact movement in them. It is the P 3001 slash 10. And I will
get to that in a moment why this is probably my favorite Panerai movement that's ever been made,
but just looking at the style of the two watches, this is the original Radiomir design. So you have
this cushion shaped case, the slender wire attachments on the top and bottom where the
strap attaches. You have this conical, crown, not the big crown guard that you see later on
the Luminor Marina. And this has always been viewed as the dressier version of a Panerai.
This is from the original 1936 prototype that they made for the Italian Royal Navy.
They wanted something that could be completely submersible, but really easy to read,
even in low light conditions. So when you look at this dial, it's a very simple dial. It's the
hallmark of Panerai. And even though the sandwich dial here has off white loom in the daytime,
it of course glows bright green for the the super LumiNova that it's equipped with. Now,
it's a simple dial. When you look at this one, it is marked on the dial that it's a GMT,
so it tracks two time zones. And other than that, it really just has the time, the date
and a small second hand. But the watch is so big at 47 millimeter that it looks like there's a lot
of negative space on the dial operating. It is super easy. You just unscrew the crown. It's real
easy to use because the, the shape of the crown of course, position one, you're in the wind position.
This does have a three day power reserves. That's 72 hours and on the back,
and I'll show you this again in a minute, but there's a power reserve indicator,
and it shows one to three for the power reserve, as you're winding it to
track with a second time zone, you just pull out one click and you move the time zone that you're
currently in. So as you travel, you can move it forward and backward. The second hand is still
going, so it doesn't mess up your time. And then it leaves behind the GMT hand that tracks the time
at your home time zone. So most of the time you'll probably leave them lined up. Or if you like to
see two time zones at once all the time, you can have it like that. This is also incidentally how
you change the date similar to omega and some of the other watches that are out there on this GMT,
where you can independently manipulate the iron hand for your current time zone.
That's also how you change the date. And then we just screw the crown back down.
So the the strap on this one, it matches perfectly with the blue dial and the sort
of off-white loom that it has this crew stitching. It's a beautiful strap, thickly padded, of course,
it's the rose gold buckle as well. Now the rose gold on this people will ask a lot of times,
is it the same thing as pink gold? It's really not Panerai calls it gold tech. It seems like
all of the watch companies now have their own patented formula for their rose gold
so that it doesn't diminish an intensity of the color over time. But the Italian,
you know, they're calling this red gold and it does have a higher copper content
than typical pink gold. Typical pink gold is 22 and a half percent copper, 75% gold.
This is a little bit higher, but the balance is made up by platinum. So it gives it that stability
where it won't change color over time. Now the movement is incredible. Penny and I were just
talking about this movement. What they've done with this is they've skeletonized the movement
where the plates, you can see this gear train right here where this line of rubies, this would
normally be a very large plate, but what they've done is made it just as thin as possible to expose
as much of the movement as possible. So you can really see the gear train. It gives a depth to the
movement that you normally don't see. And almost a three dimensional effect. Jonathan said, it's
like looking at a city full of skyscrapers, but when you move it, it just also, there's so many
surfaces that are finished with different finishes and there's a high polish to certain areas.
It gives a sparkle like a jewel when you move it, it does have the, the power reserve indicator
here. It's 1, 2, 3, and it says days it's a double barrel movement. So it has two main springs.
That's how they achieve the 72 hours of power reserve. You can see there is no rotor, so it is a
manual wind movement. So that's why the three days of power reserve would come into play so that you
would know exactly how much room you've got. So you can decide whether to wind your watch or not.
I like winding mine every day, but even though it has three hours of three days of power reserve,
I would probably still wind it every day, but it's just such a beautiful movement. It's great that
they gave us the Sapphire crystals front and back so that you can really see it and appreciate it.
Now, this one by contrast is the Radiomir 1940. And what we see here is, and maybe you can see
them see it better side by side. The case on the 1940 is really much closer to the Luminor case.
It's really a, a sort of a Luminor case without the big half moon crown protector that you saw
later, because it does have these more sort of masculine looking heavier duty looking lugs,
but there's still sort of short and stubby. So even though the watch is 47 millimeter,
I mean, it is a big watch. Let's make no bones about it, but it wears a lot smaller than you
would think because of the way on both of these models, the strap can just come straight down.
It, it doesn't have any sort of like solid in links. You might see on a bracelet watch
where it has to go out first, before it can come down, it can just go straight down.
So it still works even on a smaller wrist. The 1940, you see the, the thicker lugs,
but you also see a larger screw down crown, but this transitional period in 1940,
before the Luminor came out and when the Radiomir had been making changes,
this is really a historic case as well. Although the original Lumino maybe has a
little bit more of a, Jessey look a little more of a historically accurate look, because we're
all used to the idea of the 1936 prototype that they did for the Navy. But this one,
for me, it checks a lot of the boxes. It does have this deployment buckle, double deployment buckle
with the double triggers. And of course the same movement, all of the same features. The dial on
this one is what they call sun brushed brown. And this was a limited edition of 300 pieces.
The blue one is a limited edition of 200. So it's amazing that we happen to have both of
them at the same time. They're both water resistant to 50 meters owing to this screw
down crown. It's not quite as deep as you get with the big lever in the half moon,
crown protector, but it's a little bit more of an elegant look. It could go a
little dressier than Lumino or a Luminor Marino or submersible. But the brown dial
it's really exquisite. It's a great look with the rose gold. And I think either one
of them would be a great pick. I would be hard pressed to decide which one I would pick up,
but give us a call here at SwissWatchExpo. We'll be happy to let you know what we still
have in stock and talk you through all the choices that you have in our panai collection,
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