PuristSPro's 2010 SIHH Live Reporting by Z3

 

Panerai 2010 Novelties

 

From the Historic Collection

 

Three Radiomirs 42mm in stainless steel (pam337), titanium(pam338) and rose gold(pam336), from left to right.

 

 

All of them use Panerai's in-house P.999 movement, introduced this year, with 60 hours power reserve. What's interesting is that the rose gold version will use a variation of P.999 with Swan neck regulator, while the steel and titanium do not have it.

Comparison of the 42mm Radiomir case with a 45mm Radiomir Pam183. It is also thinner.

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This is Panerai's serious effort to make a dress watch, I think they did a great job. The proportionate shrinkage of the 45mm Radiomir case is quite more elegant and the P.999 movement is beautiful.

The titanium is my favorite, the brushed finish gives it a very dull, almost brushed silver like feel. The size is perfect for a contemporary-style dress watch.

 

Radimior 45mm 8 days in Titanium (Pam346), featuring P2002/9 movement. Notice how the power reserve has moved to the back, this gives a cleaner look.

 

From the Contemporary Collection

Pam359 (steel, P.9000 automatic movement, 3 day power reserve), Pam351 (titanium, P.9000 movement), Pam352 (titanium, P.9000 movement), from left to right.

Check out the vintage patina dial on the Pam359. The indices have a faint orange feel, and the styles of the indices are also a bit different, reflecting a vintage look. Very beautiful! This will be a very hot piece I think.

 

Radiomir 10 day GMT in 47mm (Pam323), Luminar 1950 10 day GMT in ceramic (Pam 332).

 

The bottom crystal of the Pam332 is "smoked glass", so the movement appears to be black-coated even though is it not. (unfortuantely with the flash, such interesting effect is lost).

 

A redialed edition of the GMT Alarm.

 

From the Special Editions

 

Perhaps the hottest Panerai this year is the Pam339. It has an 8 day movement using P.2002/7, measures 47mm, with solid back, and uses a "Panerai composite material" for the case, essentially transforming aluminum to ceramic atom by atom, resulting in an interesting dark chocolate/rust-colored metal.

This new material is said to be much stronger and tougher than ceramic, but the look is very unique. Sorry the camera does not capture the color very well. The vintage leather strap is extremely soft and very beautiful. The overall color combination has a strong military feel.

 

Mare Nostrum re-launch (Pam300), with the new Minerva hand-wound chronograph movement. Historically important piece. However, not to my taste and it is too big at 52mm.

 

Other Interesting Models.

 

Radiomir GMT 24 hour with tuxedo striped dial.

Also, check out this Radiomir Regatta with 1/8 second foudroyante, and with knots measurements on the right hand side.

 

 

Finally, the Specialty Pieces... Panerai is Getting Complicated!

 

Scienziato(Pam348). Check out this Panerai-style skeleton dial. Very industrial and cool looking, with design elements from wire fences.

 

Astronomo (Pam365).

 

 

The Jupiterium

 

 

Panerai did not introduce any new Ferrari models this year. By the way, Panerai still has the contract w/ Ferrari and is still currently producing Ferrari models. 

 

Hope you enjoyed the photos.

 

Cheers,

Jon (Z3)

This message has been edited by Z3 on 2010-01-18 15:57:40 This message has been edited by AnthonyTsai on 2010-01-18 16:43:09 This message has been edited by AnthonyTsai on 2010-01-26 10:02:41

These new Panerais are rocking my world.  The 2010 novelties are even better than last year's.  I'm super excited about several models, and still trying to digest everything.

WOW.

Cheers,

Daos

PS -- nice sleeve monogram. 

Many aesthetically pleasant pieces this year...

Jon (Z3)

p.s. glad you liked my cuffs, hence the name "Z3"=)

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Make sure you get some sleep if you can

Cheers,
Anthony

This SIHH is Panerai's best in a few years. Could you post the list prices of the 323 and 339 if you have the info?

FWIW, I have always thought the Radiomirs, even the larger ones, were underrated as dress watches. I have always warn my 268 with a suit and, as far as I'm concerned, it looks pretty sharp...

Best,
Mitch

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nt

Thanks Jon for the live pics!  Will be interesting how Panerai will use that composite case material in the future.

Regards,
ED-209

The Jupiterium is huge!

Any more caseback pics of the 348 & 365?

Kong

Thanks for giving us a full update for the people who are far away.

alepos

The 339 really floats my boat; and I am actively considering this piece. I've already gotten a ballpark figure of the "damage" for this piece too.

The 300 Mare Nostrum is tremendously beautiful! The movement is truly fantastic, it looks almost as if its movement came from a Vacheron Constantin. I would love to entertain this piece but I need a ballpark figure as to "the damage" of this piece.

Thanks for the pic Jon! Looks fun over there!

The 300 Mare Nostrum is a beautiful watch; the watch has a Minerva movement (the balance wheel does look like a big Minerva balance wheel and the 18,000vph is very Minerva), the price is approximately 3x that of the 339. And it's huge, 52mm will just be way too big on my wrist.

At this point, I'm not as enthused about the Mare Nostrum anymore, ultimately due to the prohibitive size and the cost. Furthermore, I really do have to see the movement in person, because at this cost, I am not too far from a Montblanc Villeret Chronograph with the famed Minerva movement I like.

Just an update about the 300 Mare Nostrum.

I've seen of the new models yet.

Thanks for the report, the 339 left me speachless....

 

  THANKS lots  mate, i appreciate the work you've done to put this report up, and astonishing work by panerai , some pieces to love, some to adore, some to like, some to dislike. at the end panerai is leaving me emotionally drained   i lost the ability to talk :P

 

  Faisal

 

 

... eagerly for some non-press release photos, and these are far better than a I had expected.
Thanks a mil!

Can't wait to be there on friday.

 

Vte

The 339 is indeed marvelous, and it looked like it just came back from WW3 !

lOL

cHEERS

sTEPHEN

Martin

Didn't realise the Jupiterium was so big..!!

On the Astronomo PAM365 won't the month hand cover the date window in March..??  Seems a bit odd if it does..!!

What  shame the PAM346 has a date window..  Other than that it was about as close to perfect as possible without actually being a PAM190....so close.

Thank you so much Z3 for your report, it covered everything perfectly..

Yours,

Andy.

Thanks a lot for the effort and sharing. Looking forward to test drive them when they will finally reach our AD's (I'm in Singapore and Malaysia), but am afraid some may not see daylight as they will probably be gone before even reaching the AD's....

But OP has indeed made huge efforts in bring so many new pieces year after year for the past few years!

thanks for the hard work...

the 346 has me looking...

Great live pics, exciting times for the Purists and site this week!

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Phenomenal report!! Thank you for the pictures! This year I must say Panerai read my mind...I love them all! A pity for my wallet...