Luminor Marina 44 8 Days Titanium / Brown

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 open, so the movement is visible without taking the watch apart, 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 is hand-wound, so winding it becomes part of the day rather than something the watch does for you. 192 hours of reserve puts it well past a weekend — several days off the wrist and it is still going. At 21,600 vph the seconds hand advances 6 times a second, the slower and more audible rate of an older design.

PAM00564 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a brown dial with a titanium case. Introduced in 2014.

Place-holder for P.5000 watches that do not use the small seconds function. The Panerai P.5000 has a diameter of 15¾ lignes (35.7 mm) and a thickness of 4.5 mm. It uses 21 jewels out of a total of 127 component parts. Is balance wheel oscillates at a frequency of 3 Hz, equivalent to 21,600 vibrations/hour. The design of its main plate and bridges recalls that of old movements in which the mechanism was contained between two plates concealing most of the wheels and allowing only a few details to be seen, such as the balance cock and the intermediate wheel. The P.5000 calibre has a variable inertia balance, its period of oscillation being adjusted by turning the little timing screws on the outside of the balance wheel. Using this system the balance spring is free, without the curb pins which would otherwise be used to modify its active length. The bridge supporting the balance is fixed by two screws beneath which are threaded rings which turn in both directions, the purpose of which is to adjust the endshake of the balance staff pivots. This technical solution helps the escapement to continue running perfectly in the event of shocks. The long power reserve of 192 hours, that is 8 days, is achieved by coupling the two spring barrels with toothed rims in series. The twin assembly enables longer, thinner springs to be used, resulting in a longer duration and greater uniformity in delivering energy to the movement.

20 other watches in the library run the Panerai P.5000.

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Panerai

Luminor 8 Days Blue

PAM00717 · 44 mm

Panerai

Luminor Marina 8 Days London Boutique

PAM00913 · 44 mm

Panerai

Luminor Base 44 8 Giorni Geneva Boutique

PAM02121 · 44 mm

Panerai

Luminor Marina 44 8 Giorni Stainless Steel / Black

PAM00915 · 44 mm