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Panerai Pre Vendome Black Seal Slytech 5218-218/A.
A watch which was a proto. Never in production.
Here is the Proto 003.
Best,
Nicolas
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Panerai Pre Vendome Black Seal Slytech 5218-218/A.
A watch which was a proto. Never in production. Here is the Proto 003. Best, Nicolas ...
I truly love this watch.
In a way it was an inspiration to watch collecting. I recall being a teenager in the 90’s and seeing Sly Stallone wearing a panerai in one of my dad’s WatchTime magazines. When I finally got a PAM 0010 in 2003 I thought it was the coolest. Still do. Thank...
Exactly like that!
I remember reading about Sly buying dozens of these and giving them to all his friends in Hollywood. That really stuck with me.
A Rinaldi fake, not a proto
Not a single one of these was ever produced. All the known pieces are fake, made by Luciano Rinaldi with Coro parts he got his hands on after the company went bankrupt. All the known watches have lug screws on both sides and the casebacks are marked 5218-...