Panerai design
Is this truly Italian design,or they just take a Rolex design and make it bigger?History shows us that taking an already consecrated design and simply make it bigger is not always a winning formula but this is awesome! ...
Panerai
Yes they are now same size just like in the beginning but ,it is Italian or Swiss design? ...
To me...
The case design was Rolex, or at least the manufacturer that Rolex chose to provide cases, since back then Rolex was more an assembler of parts made by others. The sandwich dials, from the rivet dials through the later ones were Panerai, designed and buil...
Rolex&Panerai
Great info ,thank you .from what I know Rolex provide de cases and the movements and Panerai just put them together,but Rolex already had their same reduced cases design in production even before starting the collaboration with Panerai ,so the Italian bra...
Fair question, but by the same measure was a Rolex a Rolex back then?
To play devil's advocate, vertical integration is a relatively new concept for the watchmaking industry so much of the 20th century was a cobbling together of various outsourced parts (in Rolex's case, we have suppliers C.R. Spillman SA, Genex, Gay Freres...
I now need to add an addendum to my own post :-)
Doing a little research, it looks like the 'cushion case' goes back at least as early as WWI (Omega has a number of examples, and there are many non-branded watches using a cushion case) so now I question whether even Rolex was the initiator of the 'desig...
