New Submersibles and more from Officine Panerai

Haute Horlogerie marque Officine Panerai has long enjoyed a special relationship with the ocean. The brand’s quest to meet the military requirements of the Royal Italian Navy meant discoveries, innovations, and numerous patents. It also meant the creation of iconic collections such as the Radiomir, the Luminor, and the presentation of the first watch in Carbotech – a composite material based on carbon fibre – in 2015.

Luminor Submersible 1950 BMG-Tech 3 Days Automatic – 47 MM
The Panerai Laboratorio di Idee now presents an invisible but revolutionary innovation, the BMG-Tech, used to make the case of the new Luminor Submersible 1950 BMG-Tech 3 Days Automatic. Similar to titanium in appearance, BMG-Tech is only slightly darker grey in colour, but differs in its atomic structure, which provides a range of very useful qualities such as extreme resistance to wear, high strength, and great lightness.

BMG-Tech – a patented material that has been used for the case, bezel, winding crown and associated protection device – is a metallic glass (Bulk Metallic Glass) made from a special glass-like alloy in a way that prevents crystallisation, so that the atoms do not arrange themselves in regular geometric structures. The alloy (consisting of zirconium, copper, aluminium, titanium, and nickel) is treated so that the resultant atomic structure of the material is “chaotic”, enabling the material’s extreme corrosion resistance, its great robustness and resistance to external shocks, and its resistance to magnetic fields.

With water-resistance guaranteed to 300 M, the new watch has a bezel with a graduated scale for calculating the time of immersion, which rotates only anti-clockwise, the date window at 3 o’clock, and the seconds counter at 9 o’clock. The clear markers on the blue dial provide excellent visibility under all lighting conditions.

The timepiece, equipped with a P.9010 automatic calibre movement with a power reserve of three days, has a winding crown that can pulled out so that the hour can easily be adjusted without interfering with the movement of the minute hand, by means of a device that moves the hour hand on its own, in jumps of one hour forward or backward.

Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Bronzo – 47 MM
Panerai presents a new watch with a bronze case, combined for the first time with a blue dial. The bronze used to make the case and the classic bridge device protecting the winding crown is an alloy of copper and pure tin – highly resistant to the corrosive action of sea water and atmospheric agents. The watch is completed by a brown leather strap with sewing of a nautical character, and a titanium buckle, and is a special edition limited to 1,000 units.

Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Oro Rosso – 42 MM
Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Acciaio – 42 MM
A diver’s professional watch, the Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic is the first Panerai Submersible watch with a 42 MM-diameter case, and is available in two versions: in steel and water resistant to 300 M; and in red gold, water resistant to 100 M. Equipped with a P.9010 automatic calibre with a power reserve of three days, both editions follow the classic Panerai Submersible design, with the Luminor 1950 case fitted with a unidirectional rotating bezel for calculating the time of immersion and the lever device protecting the winding crown. All dial elements are perfectly legible against the black background and, in the steel model only, the seconds hand is Panerai blue. The red gold model’s rotating bezel is a matt black ceramic disc with stud markers.

Panerai Lab-ID Luminor 1950 Carbotech 3 Days – 49 MM
Tapping into the infinite potential of carbon, Panerai’s new creation has a case with exceptional characteristics, a completely new deep black dial, a movement needing no lubrication, guaranteed for 50 years, and is a Special Edition consisting of only 50 units. Every component of the new Panerai Lab-ID has exceptional properties: the case is made of a composite material based on carbon fibre; the dial is covered with carbon nanotubes; and the movement that, thanks to the mechanical properties of carbon composites, works perfectly without any lubrication.

The new Panerai Lab-ID has a P.3001/C hand-wound calibre with a power reserve of three days and is presented in an innovative version, semi-skeletonised, completely without additional lubrication, and with only four jewels. By using a range of self-lubricating and dry lubricating materials, the marque has eliminated the need for maintenance and overhaul and thus provides a 50-year guarantee.

Luminor 1950 Oracle Team USA 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Ceramica – 44 MM
The Ceramica is one of the three official watches created by Panerai for Oracle Team USA, defender of the 2017 America’s Cup. Made from a special synthetic ceramic obtained from zirconium oxide, the case of the Luminor 1950 is light and strong, with a uniform matt-black appearance and a sports-watch look. The bridge lever device, also made of the same material, protects the winding crown. The titanium back is screwed in place and carries the logo ORACLE TEAM USA; the inscription 35TH AMERICA’S CUP; and a drawing of the legendary trimaran of the defending team in relief. Housing a P.9100 Manufacture calibre, the timepiece is a Special Edition of only 200 units.

Luminor 1950 Regatta Oracle Team USA 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Titanio – 47 MM
This timepiece from Panerai is an automatic chronograph with a power reserve of three days, fitted with the Regatta countdown mechanism. A new model, it is designed to be worn by sailing enthusiasts, and its design is inspired by the colours of Oracle Team USA: black, red, white, and blue.

The Regatta countdown function is remarkably simple to use: A red push-piece at 4 o’clock causes the central red chronograph minute hand to move back in one-minute jumps, until it is set to the correct countdown position. When the chronograph is started, by operating the start/stop push-piece at 10 o’clock, the relative hands start to move, initially indicating the minutes and seconds remaining before the start and, once the countdown is finished, the time elapsed from the start of the race. The push-piece at 9 o’clock returns all the chronograph hands to zero or, if it is pressed when the hands are already moving, it operates the return-to-zero (flyback) function, thus enabling a new time interval to be started immediately without carrying out the stop and reset operations. A limited edition of 200 pieces, the watch houses a P.9100/R automatic movement.