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Martin Wilmsen
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A comparison between the new ceramic 335 and the 317

Here are some more photos that I took at the SIHH in Geneva. The ceramic 335 is a new ceramic watch that was introduced this year. The watch is basically a PAM270 in a ceramic case. Because Panerai had many problems with the PVD coated case back of the 317, they came up with a "smoked" case back crystal instead for the new 335. I'm told that 80% of the movements that were made for the 317 didn't make it through the quality assurance tests which resulted in Panerai having to throw away those movements. That must have had quite an impact on delivery times of the watch. I think not all 317's have been produced and delivered to this date (don't know for sure).

I didn't take any wrist shots but I was wearing a black shirt at the show and the watch simply looked amazing on the wrist. This one will hunt me in my dreams for a while.



You can see the new "smoked" case back crystal in the two pictures below. The movement itself has not PVD coating (something that the 317 does have)



Note that the case back is made out of titanium. This is also true for the 317 which is something I hadn't noticed before.



A comparison shot of the two ceramic Luminors. 317 on the left, 335 on the right.



And a comparison shot of the case backs. 317 on the left, 335 on the right.





The following pics show that the luminova is cream colored. I also think that the numbers are just a little bit smaller than those on for instance the 270 and 317.







The color in the last pic is a bit off - but it does show the sandwich dial and the domed crystal nicely.



Thanks for looking,
Martin

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