Panerai. A stainless steel cushion-form automatic dual time zone wristwatch with date, Ref. PAM00088, OP 6633, Luminor GMT, No. 1134/2900, circa 2005.
Movement: cal. OP VIII, automatic, 21 jewels.
Dial: black, luminescent Arabic and baton indexes, subsidiary seconds, magnified date aperture.
Case: stainless steel, screw-down back, protective crown device, no. BB 1153474, stainless steel double folding clasp.
Signed: case, dial, movement and clasp.
Dimensions: width 44mm.
Accessories: guarantee card, COSC certificate, instructions, screwdriver and presentation case.

£2,600-£3,600

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.