PANERAI SUBMERSIBLE

A WIDE CHOICE OF MATERIALS – SPORTS OR PRECIOUS, CLASSIC OR AVANT-GARDE – AND THE P.9010 MANUFACTURE AUTOMATIC MOVEMENT, WITH A POWER RESERVE OF THREE DAYS, ARE USED IN A SERIES OF CREATIONS WHICH ENHANCE THE GREAT TRADITION OF PANERAI SUBMERSIBLE WATCHES. They are solid and strong, with unrivalled visibility even at great depths and a uniquely distinctive appearance. The new Panerai Submersible watches draw inspiration from the history of a brand which has its roots in the world of the sea but which is also always looking forward to the future, presenting excellent technical solutions and surprising innovations. The innovations are apparent in the variety of materials used in producing the cases: traditional high specification materials, such as titanium and AISI 316L stainless steel; precious materials such as red gold: fascinating, evocative ones such as bronze, or innovative ones such as BMG-TechTM, a metallic glass remarkable for its resistance to external shocks and corrosion. Another innovation concerns the movement: all the new Panerai Luminor 1950 Submersible watches use the P.9010 automatic calibre, with a power reserve of three days. Entirely developed and produced at the Panerai Manufacture in Neuchâtel, the movement has the date, the classic small seconds counter at 9 o’clock, the mechanism for stopping the balance wheel and the device for changing the time by moving the hour hand backwards or forwards in jumps of one hour without interfering with the running of the watch. The design of the new Panerai Submersible reveals the great attention paid to perfecting every little detail, preserving intact all the characteristics which have made this model a classic of high quality sports watchmaking. The Luminor 1950 case has a unidirectional rotating bezel with a graduated scale for calculating the time of immersion, connected through a special system designed and patented by Officine Panerai to ensure the extreme accuracy of each click. The distinctive Panerai bridge device protects the winding crown and exercises a light pressure on it, helping to ensure the high level of water- resistance – a standard feature of these Panerai models – to a depth of 300 metres (30 bar), and 100 metres for the red gold model. Lastly, the dials are clear, perfectly legible in the dark as well as in the light, and immediately recognisable as Panerai.
LUMINOR SUBMERSIBLE 1950 AMAGNETIC 3 DAYS AUTOMATIC TITANIO – 47mm THANKS TO AN INNER CASE OF SOFT IRON, THE NEW PANERAI SUBMERSIBLE IS HIGHLY RESISTANT TO MAGNETIC FIELDS. THE THICKNESS OF THE CASE HAS BEEN REDUCED BY OVER 10% COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS VERSION, A RESULT MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW P. 9010 CALIBRE. The new Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanium is the latest version of the first anti-magnetic watch produced by Panerai, with a new movement, the P.9010 automatic calibre with a power reserve of three days, and modified design resulting from the reduction in the thickness of the case and the perfecting of some details of the dial. In the Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanium it is the construction which guarantees its extremely high resistance to magnetic fields: 40,000 A/m (ampère/metre), a figure more than eight times greater than that stipulated by international standards (NIHS 90-10). Such a high limit has been achieved thanks to a special inner case made of soft iron which insulates the movement, forming a Faraday cage which deflects the flux of magnetic fields. The soft iron case is immediately below the dial which is made of the same material. The advantage of this construction is demonstrated not only in extreme environmental situations but also in everyday life, in that watches are often exposed to magnetic fields generated by electric charges and currents produced by everyday objects such as computers and mobile phones. Such magnetic fields could seriously affect the running of the watch, even to the extent of stopping the movement. This possibility is excluded in the new Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanium. The inner case of soft iron is contained in a classic Luminor Submersible case made of brush-finished titanium with the bridge lever which seals the winding crown and helps to achieve the degree of water-resistance to 300 metres.
The new version also has a feature which gives it a great personality: a matt black ceramic disc applied to the rotating titanium bezel set with studs forming a graduated scale for calculating times of immersion. The bezel only rotates anti- clockwise to avoid accidental shocks interfering with the measurement of the times of immersion. Two other very useful functions have been incorporated in the P. 9010 Manufacture movement used in this new Panerai creation: the mechanism for stopping the balance wheel when synchronising the watch, and the device for changing the time quickly: the hour hand can be moved forwards or backwards in jumps of one hour, without interfering with the running of the watch. The black dial of the Luminor Submersible 1950 Amagnetic 3 Days Automatic Titanium (PAM01389) has the date at 3 o’clock and the small seconds counter at 9 o’clock with a Panerai blue hand; the linear white hour markers are applied and covered with a luminous substance to ensure excellent visibility at night and underwater. The clarity of reading is excellent even in the dark thanks to the use of Super-LumiNova® on the hour markers, hands and graduated scale: by night – or underwater – the minute hand and the stud at 12 o’clock on the bezel glow a bright blue colour instead of the traditional fluorescent green of all the other markers, so as always to give a clear, unmistakable point of reference in calculating the times of diving. The strap is black, made of rubber with a trapezoidal brushed titanium buckle.