Officine Panerai

Watches and wine share at least two things in common.  They're best to be (1) enjoyed (not cellared away for eternity) and (2) to be enjoyed with other close friends.  It's truly so much more fun to share a truly fantastic bottle of wine and digress over it with others than to drink it alone.  

This watch shows Panerai is serious about its entry into high horology and overall it's an exceptional watch that combines the Celestial complication with very usable and pertinent information.  The watch is even clever enough to have a quick adjustment for daylight savings time.  Truly a watch that is meant to provide a large amount of useful information.  

While the front conveys useful and important information for the time when the sun rises until the sun sets, the back features a much more romantic complication that is especially pertinent after the sun has already set.  Combined with the tourbillon, I find the back of this watch especially fun and it makes this watch truly a pièce de résistance for many collectors.  

Then, admire this watch while sharing a bottle of 2009 Caymus Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon (a fantastic wine deserving of a review in itself) and you've got the ingredients for a wonderful evening.  Thank goodness that the ingredients were put to good use with a wrist, a camera, and a corkscrew.  

Thank you for reading!  

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