Luminor Chrono
REF. PAM00072
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In Context
At 40 mm it is sized to the current mainstream: 40 mm is the median across every watch measured in this catalogue. The case back is closed, so the movement stays out of sight, 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 winds itself from the motion of your wrist. 50 hours of reserve is enough to set it down on Friday evening and find it still running on Monday. At 36,000 vph the seconds hand advances 10 times a second, a high beat bought at the cost of faster wear.
PAM00072 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a black dial with a titanium, stainless steel case.
Inside: Caliber OP IV
Explore this caliber →One of the few Panerai calibres built on a Zenith El Primero rather than an ETA base, which is why it beats at 36,000 vibrations an hour where almost everything else in the catalogue runs at 21,600 or 28,800. The high rate lets the chronograph resolve a tenth of a second. Panerai used it only briefly, in early Luminor chronographs.
4 other watches in the library run the Panerai OP IV.
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