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Sseiya
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PAM 249 or PAM 305.

Hello,

Anthony was kind enough to suggest that I post what I wrote to him here so that I could get more opinions from all of you. I would greatly appreciate if all of you could share with me your opinions. Thank you for the help and this is what I wrote to Anthony:

Hi Anthony,

I hope this message finds you well. Your profound review on PAM 305 was an eye opener to me for the Luminor Submersible line from Panerai. I have to admit that Luminor Submersible did not really do it for me up until I read through your insightful review on PAM 305. I have learnt to love PAM like the rest of the Panerai enthusiast and realized that what attract most of PAM lovers are not the movements or the complications that it has to offer but rather the simplicity of the dial and the simpler the watch is the more significance and valuable it is.

Here comes the toughest part for me, my first PAM is a PAM 287 and I am getting my second PAM right now. I have narrowed down my choices into 2 PAM:

1. PAM 305 BNIB @ about $8.5k.
2. PAM 249 pre-owned @ about $11k.

I know that most Panerai enthusiast out there with the passions for Panerai's historical significance and its true value will obviously tell me that PAM 249 will be the right choice and owning one will not go wrong. It is a special series limited edition remake of the 1936 vintage Panerai ref. 3646 and has the highly sought after California dial. It is a different class of its own from the rest of the Panerai. However, this purchase will probably not be the best bangs for the buck like you mentioned for PAM 305, the movement itself that PAM 249 carries is ETA based 6497 with 56 hours of power reserve.

On the other hand PAM 305 is a new Luminor Submersible from Panerai with a Luminor 1950 casing, beautiful new dial design and an in-house movement with 3 days power reserve. What strike me the most is your review on PAM 305 and that you consider it to be one of Panerai's best bangs for the buck. I totally agree with you on that, it's a new model produced in 2010, with 47 mm Luminor 1950 casing, new dial design and 3 days power reserve in-house movement calibre P.9000. All these just tell you that it will make every single buck that you spent count and it is a watch worth buying at a pretty good entry level price. But passion will tell you that this is just one of the variations of the vibrant modern Panerai watch.

The only thing that is missing from these 2 PAMs is a sandwich dial that I am also dying for.

I would greatly appreciate if you could share with me your thoughts on the above and your opinions will be very valuable for me to decide which of the 2 PAM I will be getting.

Thank you so much for your help, Anthony.

Best regards,

Tri