Radiomir 8 Days GMT Platinum

In Context

At 45 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. 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. 192 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.

PAM00201 stands on its own in this catalogue — no other reference here shares its base number. It pairs a brown dial with a platinum case. It was a limited edition. Beyond the time it carries a gmt.

The P.2002 hand-wound calibre is the progenitor of the P.2000 series and it takes its name from the year in which the project was launched to supply Panerai watches with movements entirely designed and developed at the Manufacture in Neuchâtel. The P.2002 calibre consists of 247 components; it has 21 jewels and a thickness of 6.6 millimetres. Hand-wound and with a power reserve of 8 days with linear indicator on the dial, it has the characteristics peculiar to all the calibres of the P.2000 series: great structural strength; three spring barrels; GMT function with 24-hour indicator; seconds reset device; rapid adjustment of local time; free-sprung balance; balance wheel oscillating at 28,800 alternations per hour (a frequency which is unusual in a movement with a large power reserve).

3 other watches in the library run the Panerai P.2002.

Panerai

Radiomir 8 Days GMT

PAM00200 · 45 mm

Panerai

Luminor 1950 44 8 Days GMT Red Gold / Brown

PAM00576 · 44 mm

Panerai

Ferrari Granturismo 8 Days GMT

FER00012 · 45 mm