Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

Panerai. A titanium automatic wristwatch with date and 3-day power reserve, Luminor Submersible 1950, PAM00305, No. 0228/1000, circa 2012.
Movement: cal. 9000, automatic, 28 jewels, no. 050039
Dial: black, luminescent dot and baton indexes, subsidiary seconds, aperture for date
Case: titanium, rotating bezel, screw-down sapphire crystal display back, no. 0228/1000, OP 6734 BB 1518321, titanium buckle
Signed: case, dial, movement and buckle
Dimension: diameter 47mm.
Accessories: certificate, instructions, four spare straps, strap tools and presentation case
£3,000-£5,000

Giovanni Panerai opened the first Officine Panerai shop in Florence in 1860. The shop and workshop was also the city’s first watchmaking school.
Panerai became famous for supplying precision instruments to the Italian Royal Navy, this lead to the development of “Radiomir”, a radium-based powder which brightened the dials of the instruments. This was Patented by Panerai in 1916. The first Radiomir diving watches were created in 1935. These large robust cushion-shaped watches had to meet the specific parameters required by the Navy, Rolex supplied the movements for these original watches.
Today’s Panerai wristwatch retain many of these distinctive features which have made them so popular among collectors. They produce unique editions of their models which are released in relatively small numbers.