Category: Cheap Panerai Replica

The Cheap Panerai Replica, inspired by a vintage watch used by the Italian navy, features the brand’s P.9001 in-house movement.Scroll down for the full report, accompanied by Nik Schölzel’s stunning original photos.
Caliber family P.9000, which debuted in 2009, is the second line of in-house movements developed by Panerai. Though their power reserve is shorter, these offer the convenience of automatic winding at significantly less expense than their predecessors in the P.2000 family. Panerai Replica Watches, in fact, holds a full 10 days’ worth of power, but the watch that it powers, the Panerai Luminor 1950 10 Days GMT, is nearly twice as expensive as the one we test here, the Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT.

Despite its lower price tag, the 3 Days GMT provides almost everything the 10 Days offers: a second time zone, a power-reserve display and a return-to-zero mechanism for the seconds hand, which is triggered when you extract the crown into the hand-setting position. Along with Caliber P.9001, which powers the Panerai Replica in this test, the family includes the basic P.9000 and the P.9002.

Typical characteristics of this Swiss-made, Italian-designed brand include a satin-finished and pillow-shaped case with a polished bezel, a protective stirrup with a lever used to press the crown firmly into the case, and a distinctively styled dial with large Arabic numerals and hour indices. The 3 Days GMT watch is a faithful interpretation of the original Panerai Replica UK model, which debuted in 1950 as a watch for Italian Navy divers. but it isn’t essentially different from other Panerai watches. The unmistakable family resemblance of its products is both a strength and a weakness of this brand: if you aren’t fond of this one’s design, you probably won’t find any other Panerai model to suit you. On the other hand, every Panerai watch is immediately recognizable to the brand’s many fans. And judging by the staying power of Panerai’s retro design, the Luminor 3 Days will probably be just as appealing to collectors 10 years from now – which cannot be said about every contemporary watch.

Careful scrutiny uncovered a few specks of dust on the hands, which were stamped from rather thin stock, which causes them to bend toward the polished eyelet at the center of the dial. There’s also an obvious break in the satin finishing above the lugs, which accept the crosspiece that holds the strap.
In all other respects, however, the case is excellently crafted. It also scores points for its quick-change system for the strap lugs. A special tool, delivered with the Cheap Panerai Replica, can be used to press a button on the underside of each lug, making it easy to push out the crosspiece, remove the leather strap and install the alternate rubber one that is also included.

Manufacturer: Officine Panerai, Rue de la Balance 4, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Reference Number: PAM 00320
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, second time zone; power-reserve display on the back; zero-return function for the seconds hand
Movement: P.9001, automatic; 28,800 vph; 29 jewels; Incabloc shock absorption; Glucydur balance; fine ­adjustment via weight screws on the ­balance; 72-hour power reserve;
diameter = 31.8 mm; height = 7.9 mm
Case: Stainless steel, nonreflective 2.6-mm-thick sapphire crystal, fully threaded caseback with transparent pane of sapphire, water-resistant to 300 meters
Strap and clasp: Crocodile-skin strap, pronged stainless-steel buckle

When you look at Cheap Panerai Replica that have been modeled on their historical predecessors, and, like them, have stationary bezels and leather straps, do you ever wonder if frogmen really wore the original versions on their dives? After all, a rotating bezel and metal bracelet or rubber strap are now considered mandatory for dive watches.
Of course, there’s ample proof that military frogmen really did wear these early Panerais. But what were their missions like and how did it feel to be part of them? We searched for clues with an experienced frogman who is a member of the Historical Diving Society, an international organization dedicated to preserving and protecting diving heritage. He donned an old-fashioned diving suit and brought along vintage equipment. He also brought along the Panerai Replica Watches, which looks very much like a Panerai watch from the 1950s, so we could revive a bygone era and experience how the frogmen of yesteryear might have felt.

The diver who accompanied us on our dive, Jens Höner, is a trained frogman and mine clearance diver who has set depth records both with and without equipment, including a scuba dive to a depth of 240 meters. He has explored underwater caves and submerged shipwrecks. We collaborated with him and with the Historical Diving Society to restage an unusual scenario: to go on a dive equipped just like the military divers of the 1950s and ’60s. And before he took the plunge, he strapped on our test watch, a Panerai Replica that matches its historical predecessor in nearly every detail.

Then as now, it’s important for a military diver to use a “rebreather,” which is a closed circulation diving device. It makes a long dive possible, while assuring that no telltale bubbles rise to the surface and give away the diver’s location. Unlike recreational divers, a military frogman doesn’t take a large tank full of pressurized air with him; he carries instead a smaller tank full of oxygen that, despite its smaller volume, enables him to stay underwater for two to three hours. The air that he exhales is treated with soda lime inside the device to prevent carbon dioxide retention. But the Panerai Replica UK disadvantage of this system is that as the depth increases, breathing molecular oxygen at increased partial pressures can quickly lead to oxygen poisoning. This is why divers who use these devices can safely descend to only about six meters, a depth that’s relatively shallow yet great enough for most military missions. These divers typically swim for long stretches, remaining under water and thus out of sight, and only after they’ve swum well past enemy lines do they come ashore to conduct reconnaissance or blow up a bridge.

The sandwich-style dial is also the reason for the distinctive open shape of the Cheap Panerai Replica numeral “6”: its inner part must be connected to its outer part. To make a virtue of this necessity, and to create a handsome dial despite functional restrictions, is a feat that could probably have been achieved only by Italian designers.

Manufacturer: Officine Panerai, Route de Pierre-à-Bot 87, CH-2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Reference number: PAM00422
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, power-reserve display on caseback
Movement: Hand-wound manufacture Caliber P.3001, 21,600 vph, stop-seconds function with automatic reset, 21 jewels, Incabloc shock absorption, Glucydur balance, 72-hour power reserve, diameter = 37.2 mm, height = 6.3 mm
Case: Stainless-steel case with domed, nonreflective sapphire crystal, fully threaded caseback with sapphire window, hinged lever to protect crown, water resistant to 100 m
Strap and clasp: Calfskin strap with pin buckle made of stainless steel