Radiomir 1940 42 3 Days Automatic Acciaio / Mediterraneo

In Context

At 42 mm it is sized to the current mainstream: 40 mm is the median across every watch measured in this catalogue. 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 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.

PAM00933 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a blue sunburst dial with a stainless steel case. It was a limited edition.

Officine Panerai presents the P.4000 calibre, the first automatic movement with an off-centre micro-rotor completely developed and made in the Panerai Manufacture at Neuchâtel. This design means that the rotor is mounted off-centre and is therefore smaller in diameter than the calibre itself: a sophisticated technical solution enabling the thickness of the movement to be substantially reduced. The small oscillating weight is inserted within the movement rather than superimposed upon it and the result is a calibre which preserves all the Panerai characteristics of accuracy, reliability and solidity but with a thickness of only 3.95 mm.

13 other watches in the library run the Panerai P.4000.

Panerai

Radiomir 1940 45 3 Days Automatic Red Gold / Blue / Mediterraneo

PAM00934 · 45 mm

Panerai

Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic Acciaio Bucherer Blue Editions

PAM00694 · 45 mm

Panerai

Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic Oro Rosso Bucherer Blue Editions

PAM00695 · 45 mm

Panerai

Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic Oro Rosso

PAM00573 · 45 mm