Panerai Luminor GMT Review

Giovanni Panerai founded Officine Panerai in 1860 in Florence, Italy. It is initially famous for offering watch Italian Navy. Giovanni Panerai had ever made contact with some prestigious Swiss watch manufacturers at that time, which was very helpful for Panerai watch brand development. From then on, Panerai started its glorious journey in haute horology field.

Throughout Panerai's history, its Luminor GMT is one of the outstanding timepieces. Each Panerai Luminor GMT watch seems to be preference of every man. It looks like a cell phone for men, Panerai Luminor GMT watches has become a eternal accessory on men's wrist. Just as what I said, Panerai GMT watch is an important accessory for men more than a timepiece. Actually, men also love jewellery, a nice chain, a matching bracelet or a fancy ring. The importance of a brand name watch is as same as these jewellery.

When ladies choosing a watch, they always pay much more attention to the design, that is appearance. HOwever, the modern men will care about watch's technical specifications. They often keep a watchful eye on the reliability. All these characteristics you will certainly find in a Panerai Luminor GMT Watch. The Luminor GMT watch is a high-tech masterpiece. Equipped with perfect Panerai in-house movement, GMT watch is a flawless watch with absolutely accuracy, precision, reliability and durability. The clear sapphire crystal and a massive screwed-in case back keep the crown sealed against water intrusion.

Panerai Luminor GMT watch features 40mm or 44mm in case diameter. Coming in stainless steel or titanium, each version is water resistant up to 300 metres beneath the sea. Every Luminor GMT watch offers clare legibility under any light conditions because of its dial's luminous indications.

With the development of travel among different countries, a watch with dual time zone function becomes more and more necessary. The smart watch makers consider to design a watch with the ability to show the time in different time zones. The launch of Panerai Luminor GMT Watch solved this problem. It is a competitive watch model. It can indicate the time in two time zones simultaneously. Luminor GMT watch is really a practical and excellent companion for your travelling.

Except the practical functions, Panerai Luminor GMT watch is also a elegant accessory. Panerai's skillful watchmakers has not neglected the design at all. Panerai Luminor GMT watch goes well with both a casual and a more formal outfit. It is a modern design timepiece with silvery white case and the dark dial and it can perfect match to any colour choice of your clothing.

You can freely choose the strap of a GMT watch according to your own style. Panerai offers the alligator, calf leather or rubber strap. The titanium and steel version of Panerai GMT watch also can be purchased with a very intricate bracelet created from overlapping titanium and steel links. Each watch is teamed with securely fastened clasp, avoiding any undesirable incidents. Perfectly combining stylish design and reliability, the Panerai Luminor GMT Watch is one of the most popular creations of the Contemporary Panerai collection.

New Replica Panerai Luminor Equation

Don't be fooled by its golden movement, it is a poorly made Asian copied movement, click to enlarge the picture, the "OFFICINE PANERAI" words are sticked on the auto rotor. This replica Panerai watch offers equation function, which is the biggest spot of the watch, besides, the black PVD case matches with black dial and black rubber strap makes it look very harmonious and perfectly fits your white shirt.

The Comparison of Panerai Contemporary and Historic Watches

Panerai watches are elegant, classical and beautiful. For me, I think the diving watch from Panerai is a little more elegant than Rolex, Tag Heuer or Seconda.

As we all known, Officine Panerai was founded by Giovanni Panerai in 1860 in Florence. Panerai watches have been famous for high quality watches since its foundation. Panerai initially produced watch for Italian Navy. It gained a high reputation and was the supplier of the Radiomir wrist watch to the navy of Italy in 1990.

Historic Collection of Panerai

Some Panerai buyers may be confused with the name Panerai Historic Collection. Actually, Historic collection doesn't refer to those old models introduced many many years ago. They are also quite contemporary in style. On Panerai official website, we can see that Historic collection includes Luminor Base, Luminor Marina, Radiomir, Luminor 1950 3 Days, Radiomir 8 Days and Luminor 1950 8 Days GMT. These watches have hand made mechanical aspects, power reserve 56 hours, a stainless steel case and bezel.

Panerai Historic watches are all with a rugged construction and water resistant up to 300 meters. They feature a transparent case back. You can see the inner craftsmanship of the watch through sapphire crystal. Every Panerai Historic watch is teamed with either a leather or an alligator strap.

Contemporary Collection of Panerai

Panerai Contemporary Collection is really stunning and amazing. For me, the Luminor Marina Automatic is the most outstanding watch model. It represents in steel or titanium case. The Panerai Contemporary collection offers 42 hours power reserve less than the Historic watches. And the case back is not transparent without sapphire crystal glass. However, they share the same second hands at 9 o clock. The date window of Panerai Contemporary Collection is round rather than the usual rectangle.

All Panerai watches come with a lockdown winding crown arm, which is athe distinctive trademark of the Panerai company. As for quality of these replica watches, undoubtedly, they are the best ones in whole haute horology field.

Panerai - A Down-to-earth Italian Watch Manufacturer

In 1860, Giovanni Panerai (1825-1897) opened the first watch shop on the Ponte alle Grazie of Florence in Italy. Giovanni employed many skilled watch makers from Switzerland and immediately made Panerai the leading watch manufacturer in Italy. Today, Italian Florence was still the home of Officine Panerai, but the new headerquarters has been moved to the Neuchâtel building in Switzerland, which was also the R & D Center of Panerai.

Guido, the grandson of Giovanni Panerai, took the family business in 1900 and moved it to Piazza San Giovanni. It was under his leadership that Panerai became the supplier of the Italian Royal Navy.

Combining the most advanced Swiss watch-making technology and Italian design style, Panerai has produced many extraordinary masterpieces over these years. From the beginning Radiomir, which was made in 1936 and equipped with Rolex movement, the later Luminor diving watch, which was produced at the request of the Italian Navy in 1950, to the modern Ferrari collection, each of them witnessed the technical improvement of Panerai.

For example, as a diving watch brand, I think the Luminor invented by Panerai should be the best replacement of Radiomir, because the Radiomir at that time couldn't fulfill the underwater operation requirement of the Italian Navy, however, the Luminor watch featured a crown guard device with a locking lever, which could exactly lock the crown tightly and prevent water penetration.

Panerai has made great effort to display its distinctive personality and development strategy. This Swiss brand deeply knew that they must own their self-developed movement to survive in such a competitive watch-making environment, so Panerai published their first self-developed movement P.2002 in 2005, in the following years, P.9000, P.999 and P.3000 emerged as the mushrooming. Another development strategy Panerai has sticked to was the limited quality policy, today, there are many Panerai boutiques around the world, from Shanghai, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and Tokyo, but there are still many people couldn't get one, that's how the limited quality policy works.

So, from the above story, we knew the origin of Panerai and the reason why it is so popular that many replicas have emerged in the market in recent years. The following is typically a Cheap Panerai Replica Watch, a whole white watch except the black hour markers and the metal edge of hour and minute hands. This replica Panerai white dial version is really not something on appearance, if you want to buy a Replica Panerai Watch, the black dial model is more elegant.

Panerai Luminor 1950 8 Days Brown Dial

Being equipped with Luminor 1950 case, Panerai announced a new watch that was made of brushed titanium, 47mm in diameter. Polished bezel sharply contrasts with the case. The Panerai watch features a transparent sapphire crystal case back, so we can view the working of P.2002/9 movement. The brown leather strap has some vintage style strap, coupled with a brushed titanium buckle, which is in harmony with the titanium case. Titanium is chosen as case material because of its light weight, scratch resistance and anti-allergic characteristic.

P.2002/9 calibre is completely designed and manufactured by Panerai itself, the balance wheel of P.2002/9 beats 28.800 alternations per hour (4 Hz). The movement is 23 jeweled and has 246 components. It has a power reserve capacity of 8 days, which can be seen from the case back of the watch. P.2002 features a seconds zero-reset device, so you can adjust the time more precise. The watch is waterproof to 100 meters.
Small seconds counter is set at 3 o'clock, brown dial with Arabic numbers and hour markers, which are coated with luminescent material. The Panerai-patented crown guard device is also brushed titanium made. A sapphire crystal glass, which is 2mm thick, protects the brown dial and with anti-reflective effect.

Where Panerai Self-made P.2002 Movement Born

Neuchatel is located in Switzerland, where all processes of manufacturing P.2002 happen, including R&D, assembly of the movement and quality testing. Obviously, Neuchatel has become a new headerquarters of Panerai except the Florentine workshop, this new Swiss watch factory will carry more important missions on the road of developing self-made movements.

Rose Gold VS Titanium

Rose gold and titanium are two usual materials adopted by watch-making industry, especially in replica watches, rose gold spreads around, the above picture is a rose gold Radiomir watch, it looks like the case color perfectly fits the brown leather strap, and the rose gold is indeed much nobler than the titanium, but the color may fade after a long time use, perhaps a very short time for the replica watch. So, if you are going to buy a replica Panerai that is made of rose gold, don't forget to ask the dealer about the thick of the rose gold coating.

Panerai Jupiterium Review

Panerai announced the start of the celebrating activity about the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first discovery. Panerai CEO Angelo Bonati made a short speech before the conference and published Panerai Jupiterium, which is a classic manual mechanical instrument and provides the Perpetual Calendar function.

Panerai Jupiterium doesn't follow the previous manufacturing style. It is three-dimensional and consists of a big glass with a glass ball siting in the middle, whose bottom is fixed on a square wooden base. To reflect the spirit of Galileo's astronomical discovery, the glass ball features a zodiac whose surface is coated with superluminova. Besides, the glass ball is fitted with titanium arms inside to hold the Earth and planets firmly. Whether from the north hemisphere or south hemisphere, the zodiac can be clearly seen at day or night.
About the time display, the Jupiterium inherits the design tradition of Panerai. Seeing from the picture, the dial is sandwich structure, hours, minutes and small seconds (small seconds subdial is at 9 o'clock with two rectangular apertures indicating AM and PM. Panerai Jupiterium has 40-hour power reserve and the Perpetual Calendar function that can tells the day, date, month and year without any need for manual regulation, even in leap years.

Panerai Jupiterium is only limitedly produced to 1 piece. Now it is exhibited in the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.

There are currently no replica version of Panerai Jupiterium over the internet, but the replica watch industry always shocks us by introducing some extraordinary timepieces, the following pictures describe a vintage Panerai replica watches, it is only sold at $155.

I have visited the website Hellopanerai.com that is selling this masterpiece, they said the case of the watch is made of 316L steel, but is ETA coating, which means the case is processed in the same way as the genuine watch.

Panerai Luminor GMT Watch - A Good Tool For Businessmen

Panerai family business began in 1860, Giovanni Panerai (1825-1897), the founder of Panerai, opened the first watch shop in Florence, Italy and gradually made this watch manufacturers share a high reputation in watch-making industry.

Among the several timepieces Panerai has created, Panerai Luminor GMT ranks highly among Panerai mens watches. Besides showing the time in a reliable way, but also providing a convenience for business travellers. In modern times, we all need a watch, but for the businessmen, not only they need a watch with a large face to display time clearly, but also need a GMT watch to accompany them to travel around the world.

The modern men will choose his watch that exactly reflect their personalities which you will certainly find in Panerai Luminor GMT. Unlike ladies, they seem to be more interested in diamond watches rather than utility watches. Panerai Luminor is a robust and flawless watch, it is equipped with a perfectly-made antireflective sapphire crystal and screwed-in crown and case back, the locking lever of Panerai Luminor watch keeps the crown sealed against water permeation.

Panerai Luminor GMT watch is made of stainless steel or titanium, whether the 40mm or 44mm Panerai, they are all waterproof to 300 meters, however, in the replica market, most of Panerai Replica Watches can't dive in the sea, or you might not get a bath while wearing these replica watches. Besides, the dial of all Panerai watches can be easily read at night due to its Superluminova.

For a businessman, they often travel from one continent to another. That is the reason why there are increasing watch makers to install their watches with a practical function - GMT. Panerai Luminor GMT is exactly the watch that can fully meet this need of businessmen. It can display the time in a second time zone, which makes it a good choice for a traveller or a businessman.

Panerai Luminor GMT inherits the perfect design tradition of Panerai. This GMT watch is a very elegant piece which fitted with a casual alligator, calf leather or a rubber strap. The silver case is made of 316L stee. Actually, there are many Panerai Replica Watches also use this steel level. The dark dial not only gives a better visual looking, but also can perfectly fit your white shirts.

If you are looking for a Panerai Luminor GMT watch and can't afford a genuine Panerai. Why not choose a replica one, it also can give you a genuine feeling and save you money, besides, the Replica Panerai Luminor GMT is as stylish as the genuine one, the following is some examples and suggestions I give to you, these Panerai replicas just landed in replica market and are sold at a cheap price.

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Specifications of Panerai Clock

Case: Stainless stee, PVD black coating, 350mm in diameter

Movement: Swiss quartz

Dial: Black

Functions: Hours, minutes