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PANERAI Iphone 4 app updated with 339 REMOVED as 2010 SE
This may have been discussed but now the 339 SE is officially gone from all sources and sites. Now they have managed to fixed even the iphone apps and 339 is already no longer an official SE for 2010. What's the real reason for this? Was it the MM logo issue again? However, why have they taken it all out ?
someone said only first batch would have MM some time ago
Cos the contract between PAM and ITALIAN GOV'T no longer exists and MM is the logo saved for Italian Marines and they can NO LONGER produce watches advertising that it is made for GOV'T use. Hence, they have to take out the whole watch for regulatory reason. Hence, you won't be able to find it anymore as a 2010 SE with explanation saying that it was dedicated to Marines.
There were rumours (unconfirmed) that the dial will change to PANERAI only. Can someone confirm why?
There were rumours (unconfirmed) that the dial will change to PANERAI only. Can someone confirm why?
my feeling is that
it doesn't have so much to do with the MM logo. my guess is that they are not making it SE anymore, ie, they will make it regular production?
Seems unlikely...
...as you know several people have bought the watch (including myself) under the assumption that it is a LE. It is a real stretch to think that they can make that change after they have sold a handful. My guess is that as part of the "settlement" with the Italian Navy, Panerai was asked to sell the watches in a "low profile" way. I believe the Navy has another licensee form the Marina Militare trademark and perhaps this compromise was reached?
Call me primitive but......
who cares about all these "mental masturbations"? It's, in my opinion, a spectacular watch and I would buy one....regardless....of all the "hulla-balloooo"... 
Cheers - Sergio
agree but...
317's last batch with darkened pvd movement, the pig, the MM... you see a trend here. PANERAI is all about HUULA BOOLA because it's an ingenious marketing company that sells a fashion item with lots of HUULA BOOLA to get us all hyped right? The pig, then how they claimed the pig was hard to make and then re issue them on 412... whatever game they are playing, it's a game of HUULA BOOLA and without such mental masturbations, much of the artificial demand would subside. Sorry to break the truth. I like it and I admit I am the sucker to PAM marketing and you are right, who cares huula boola, as long as you know you are buying into one gimmicky adornment.
Sorry but.....
317 with MM? I haven't heard that one. I thought Panerai and MM, particularly after the 339 "drama" were not...touchy feely....anymore....
Cheers - Sirjo