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The Luminor is the Panerai case with the crown-protecting bridge, a lever patented in 1956 that clamps the crown against the case. It was made for the Italian Navy's divers. This library holds 275 references of the standard Luminor line.

Panerai Luminor Power Reserve for Sincere

Panerai

Luminor Power Reserve for Sincere

PAM00211 · 44 mm

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Panerai

Luminor 8 Days Blue

PAM00717 · 44 mm

Panerai Luminor Marina Portofino Boutique

Panerai

Luminor Marina Portofino Boutique

PAM00539 · 44 mm

Panerai Luminor Marina Automatic Diamond Bezel

Panerai

Luminor Marina Automatic Diamond Bezel

PAM00071 · 40 mm

Panerai Luminor Sealand Year of the Dragon

Panerai

Luminor Sealand Year of the Dragon

PAM00840 · 44 mm

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Panerai

Luminor Marina Titanium

PAM00040 · 44 mm

Panerai Luminor Marina 8 Days London Boutique

Panerai

Luminor Marina 8 Days London Boutique

PAM00913 · 44 mm

Panerai Luminor Marina Marina Militare

Panerai

Luminor Marina Marina Militare

PAM00082 · 44 mm

Panerai Luminor Sealand for Purdey Elephant

Panerai

Luminor Sealand for Purdey Elephant

PAM00814 · 44 mm

Panerai Luminor Sealand Shanghai Lions

Panerai

Luminor Sealand Shanghai Lions

PAM00820 · 44 mm

About the Panerai Luminor

The name predates the bridge. Luminor was the tritium-based luminous compound Panerai patented in 1949 to replace the radium of the Radiomir, and the watches took the name of their dials. When Panerai opened its catalogue to civilians in 1993, the Luminor and the Luminor Marina were the first models, and after the Richemont acquisition of 1997 the PAM 00001 Luminor Base and PAM 00005 Luminor Marina became the reference points for everything since: a 44 mm cushion case, a sandwich dial with the numerals cut through the upper layer, and a hand-wound Unitas movement.

That Unitas heritage is still the most common movement here. The OP II and OP I, both built on the ETA 6497, power 76 references, and the Unitas piece explains why a pocket-watch caliber suited the case so well. The OP III, a Valjoux 7750 stripped of its chronograph works, is the most common single movement at 71 references. The in-house calibers arrived later: the eight-day hand-wound P.5000 in 17 references, the three-day P.6000 in 8, and the automatic P.900 of the 40 mm Luminor Marina Quaranta of 2020. The collection splits almost evenly between hand-wound and automatic, 135 to 139.

44 mm accounts for 227 of the 275 references and 40 mm for 46. Steel is the case for 221, titanium for 33. Black dials dominate at 175, and 127 references are limited editions. Water resistance is 300 m on 179 references, which the crown bridge is there to guarantee.

The Luminor 1950 is the thicker, more curved case derived from the 1950 prototype, the Luminor Due the slimmer 2016 version, and the Submersible the diver with a rotating bezel.

All models in this collection275