Officine Panerai

I am in the process of deciding to purchase my first panerai and have decided that as being a manual wind lover then the cal 999 in the 42mm x12mm pam 337 or pam 338 would be an ideal choice either steel or titanium However I was baffled to find out that ... 

of Panerai owners really don't place much emphasis on whether or not the movement has or doesn't have a swans neck regulator. That's just my opinion. I'd just get the model that you fancy more. Movements are all fairly accurate these days, so swans neck r... 

a Panerai will be bought based ONLY on the movement, will be a very sad day (at least for me) :-) Cheers

Having serviced movements with and without precision regulators- then for me a swan neck regulator is a great thing to have on a calibre as the knocks and jolts from every day use can be cancelled out by the regulator arm solidly fixed between the spring ...