PANERAI Rocks SIHH 2010 With The Composite Radiomir Marina Militare

SICK! I Gotta Have This.

I have had the fortunate luxury of owning many Panerai watches over the years. I started my addiction with a PAM00090 The Luminor Marina power Reserve about 10 years ago and finished with my most recent purchase a couple years back of the holy Grail Panerai PAM00127 The Panerai 1950 which was stolen from me. Thank Christ I had the foreskin and the forsight to file a police report and send it to Panerai. Hopefully I will get it back soon. In the Intirum I have basically worn all kinds of shit. I even owned a PAM00183 Panerai Radiomir Black Seal in Steel 45 mm. I will be honest the Radiomir to me seemed way too dressy for everyday use and not as masculine. I felt that maybe it should have come with a bottle of estrogen pills. Today I am blown away with what Panerai has done for this years SIHH 2010. They have finally done justice to the Radiomir and made it a real man's watch by cutting off the tits and attaching balls. This watch is called the Radiomir Composite Marina Militare.

Movement: Hand-wound mechanical, Panerai P.2002/7 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai, 13 ¾ lignes, 6.6mm, 21 jewels, Glucydur® balance, 28,800 alternations/hour. KIF Parechoc® anti-shock device. Power reserve 8 days, three barrels. 191 components.

Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds.

Case: Diameter 47 mm, brown Panerai composite material, with removable wire loop strap attachments (patented). Winding crown personalized Panerai.

Bezel: Panerai composite material.

Back: Panerai composite material.

Dial: Brown with luminous Arabic and Roman numerals and hour markers. Small seconds at 9 o’clock.

Crystal: Sapphire, formed of corundum, 1.9 mm thick. Anti-reflective coating.

Water-resistance: 10 bar (100 metres).

Strap: PANERAI personalised leather strap and largesize brown Panerai composite material.

Reference: PAM00339

So this composite material is harder than ceramic. This material gives the case a nice deep brown color and makes it look so difinitive vintage an miliatry alongside the brown vintage sandwich dial and distressed miliary strap. The eight day movement is very much a part of their history dating back to the 1930's. Overall Panerai has done a stellar job this year and has definately Rocked SIHH 2010 with the Radiomir Composite Marina Militare!