April 2021 may seem far away but in fair organisation terms, especially amidst COVID-19, it is not, and so the perhaps expected announcement by Watches & Wonders that next year’s Geneva fair will again be solely digital, has come to… Read More ›
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EXHIBITION: “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”
From Tuesday 27 October until Sunday 13 December 2020 the History of Science Museum, Oxford, is hosting an exhibition on time and time-keeping called “The Heartbeat of the City: 500 Years of Personal Time”. It is presented by the History… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Submersible Goldtech™ Orocarbo (PAM01070)
This may be the year of the Luminor for Officine Panerai this year, but that does not mean that they have abandoned new releases from their other collection families. At the recent Watches & Wonders Shanghai they launched a new… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches & Wonders Shanghai 2020
This year’s inaugural Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 went digital, and the releases are still filtering down to worldwide markets, but the W&W-branded expansion continues, with the announcement of their first event in Shanghai. Remembering, of course, that there were… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Luminor Marina Fibratech PAM01663
In an earlier post about Officine Panerai’s commemoration of 70 years of the Luminor, I mentioned a new composite material making its debut – Fibratech™ , a basalt-fibre composite created to be light (it is 70% lighter than steel and… Read More ›
WATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020: illuminating 70 years of the Panerai Luminor
At 0200 on the 25th of April 2020 Sydney time the first Watches & Wonders digital fair opened its press portal, at an hour which was probably better suited to other time zones. In taking a look at it at… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Radiomir 1940 Mediterraneo PAM1078 and PAM1144
In 2018 Officine Panerai introduced five new models to its Radiomir 1940 collection, all featuring deep blue Mediterranean-inspired dials and matching blue alligator straps, with either a second rubber strap or a blue fabric one, depending on the model. The… Read More ›
NEW : PANERAI ‘Edizione Verde Militare’
Today we bring you a break from 2019’s ‘blue’ programming with a new dial colour, courtesy of four new pieces just announced by Panerai. Going under the banner of the ‘Edizione Verde Militare’ (Military Green Edition), the PAM995, PAM997, PAM998,… Read More ›
BRONZE FORTNIGHT : Panerai Submersible Bronzo PAM00968
Panerai’s original ‘Bronzo’ (the PAM00382) of 2011 had been assumed at the time, to be a one-off. Not only was it not, but it was also instrumental in the subsequent widespread popularity of this material. What had seemed to be… Read More ›
SIHH 2019: Panerai Submersible Chrono Guillaume Néry Edition PAM982
In March 2018, freediver Guillaume Néry announced that he had become a worldwide ambassador for Officine Panerai, revealing that he was ‘chapter 3’ of the TRAITS campaign (his section called, naturally, ‘Mare’), at the same time. So who is Guillaume… Read More ›
