Panerai is all about how it looks on your wrist from your vantage point....I wasn't ever sold until I put one on my wrist. Then it was over. Good Luck.
What an exceptional timepiece, I know you have been waiting a long time and I can feel from your post that you are happy with the outcome. Congratulations my friend....the experience sounds like it was half the payoff....the watch of course the other...
I think it's a phenomenal piece. The PVD movement is very important to me, a tinted window would certainly not have the same appeal....not to me anyway. It certainly doesn't look like a Vintage Piece, but why should it? It's a modern complicated PAM....