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Panerai. A stainless steel cushion-form automatic diver’s wristwatch, Ref. PAM01229, Submersible, no. Z0210/3000, 2024.
Movement: cal. P.900, automatic, 23 jewels.
Dial: black, applied baton and dot indexes, subsidiary seconds, date aperture.
Case: stainless steel, screw-down back, rotating bezel with graduated scale, protective crown device, no. OP 7482 BB2110775, stainless steel buckle.
Signed: case, dial, movement and buckle.
Dimensions: diameter 44mm.
Accessories: warranty card 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.