Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Titanio Lo Scienziato

In Context

At 48 mm this is exceptionally large for something worn on a wrist, closer to a pocket watch given lugs. The case back is open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. 100 m is genuine swimming resistance — more than the shape of this watch suggests it would need.

The movement is hand-wound, so winding it becomes part of the day rather than something the watch does for you. 144 hours of reserve puts it well past a weekend — several days off the wrist and it is still going. At 28,800 vph the seconds hand advances 8 times a second.

PAM00578 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a skeleton dial with a titanium case. It was a limited edition. Beyond the time it carries a gmt and a tourbillon.

First Panerai tourbillon calibre in titanium with fine skeletonized bridges and plates, introduced in 2016. Thanks to the lower density of this material – about half that of the brass of which these components are normally made – the overall weight of the movement is 35% less than that of the P.2005/S skeletonised version. The long power reserve of six days is achieved by the three spring barrels connected in series, and the power remaining is shown by a special indicator on the back of the movement. All this fine work of skeletonising enables the fascinating details to be admired, such as the winding and unwinding of the spring inside each barrel, the intricate interconnection of the wheel work and in particular the rotation of the tourbillon cage, which, in the version patented by Panerai, is fundamentally different from the normal arrangement.

4 other watches in the library run the Panerai P.2005/T.

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Luminor Submersible Ecopangaea Tourbillon GMT Mike Horn

PAM01108 · 50 mm

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Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Goldtech

PAM01060 · 47 mm

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Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Titanio Lo Scienziato Blue

PAM00767 · 48 mm

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Luminor 1950 Tourbillon GMT Lo Scienzato

PAM00768 · 47 mm