Amongst Panerai’s releases at Watches & Wonders Geneva 2021 were a trio of new Luminor Chronos, and I recently had the opportunity to see one in the metal at their Sydney boutique. The three new models are the PAM 1109… Read More ›
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WATCHES & WONDERS 2021: Panerai Submersible eLAB-ID PAM1225
Last year there had been some talk in the air about Panerai doing something very interesting in terms of sustainability and recycled material, and so it has come to be. If you read ‘LAB-ID’ you know that it’s going to… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Platinumtech™ Luminor Marina PAM1116
Panerai’s continued development of alloys, usually in the form of materials with -tech suffix names (Carbotech™, Goldtech™, Fibratech™), is a subject that we have covered over recent years. It is an interesting and difficult challenge for a brand with such… Read More ›
NEW: Panerai Luminor Marina Guillaume Néry Edition
Panerai have launched the their third Guillaume Néry Edition edition, the PAM1122. Their first Néry model was the PAM 982 in 2019, followed by the fifteen piece limited edition PAM 983. Unlike its predecessors, which were both chronographs in 47mm… Read More ›
INDUSTRY NEWS: Watches & Wonders Geneva 2021 to be digital
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 ›
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 ›