Luminor 1950 44 3 Days GMT Automatic Stainless Steel / Mahendra Singh Dhoni

In Context

At 44 mm it is a large watch — well above this catalogue’s 40 mm median, and enough to dominate a narrow wrist. The case back is closed, so the movement stays out of sight, and the sapphire crystal will resist everything short of deliberate abuse. 300 m is a professional diving rating, far past any demand a wrist is likely to make of it.

The movement winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 72 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.

PAM01056 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a green matte dial with a stainless steel case. It was a limited edition. Beyond the time it carries a gmt.

Caliber P.9010 is the successor to the P.9000 movement, featuring a slightly slimmer design and a balance bridge secured on two sides. The automatic P.9010 calibre, entirely developed and created in the Panerai Manufacture in Neuchâtel, has central hour and minute hands, the small seconds dial at 9 o’clock and the date at 3 o’clock. The energy necessary to accumulate a power reserve of three days – the basic standard for Panerai in-house movements – is stored in two spring barrels whose springs are wound by an oscillating weight operating in both directions. Consisting of 200 components including 31 jewels, the calibre has a diameter of 13¾ lignes and it is 6 mm thick. The balance, fixed by a bridge with twin supports, oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz). It is associated with the device which stops it as soon as the winding crown is pulled out, enabling the watch to be perfectly synchronised with a reference signal. In the P.9010 calibre the hours can be conveniently adjusted without interfering with the movement of the minute hand, thanks to the device which directly moves only the relative hand in jumps of one hour forward or backwards. This function is very useful when changing time zones or moving between summer time and winter time, and conveniently the adjustment of the hour hand is automatically connected to the date indicator.

7 other watches in the library run the Panerai P.9010/GMT.

Panerai

Luminor 1950 44 BiTempo Stainless Steel / New York

PAM01467 · 44 mm

Panerai

Luminor 1950 42 GMT Titanium / Carbotech / Blue

PAM01279 · 42 mm

Panerai

Luminor 1950 44 BiTempo Luna Rossa Stainless Steel / Blue

PAM01404 · 44 mm

Panerai

Submersible GMT Carbotech Navy SEALs

PAM01324 · 44 mm