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Panerai SIHH 2011 watches - Part 2

Next up is the Panerai PAM376 47mm White Gold Radiomir 3 Days w/ California dial.   It's a unique edition of 299 pieces from the SIHH 2011 Special Editions.  It's another 47mm Radiomir housing the new P.3000 in-house manual wind movement and also uses the Plexiglass crystal just like in the PAM373.  This PAM376 is just another mix and match combo by Panerai using the California dial, but at least this is the first variant using the new P.3000 movement.

If I had to choose between the PAM373 or the PAM376, I'd definitely pick the PAM373 but that's just my preference.  I'm sure there are many others who would prefer the California dial though.

And once again, the large P.3000 movement is a stunner and huge winner in my book.  I am definitely adding a P.3000 movement watch to my Panerai collection in the future but if I do, I fear I may not wear my other Panerai's anymore because they won't have this awesome display back view.

Next is the Panerai PAM384 45mm Radiomir 8 Days Ceramic . It's a black dialed ceramic Radiomir which uses the manual wind P.2002/3 movement and is part of the SIHH 2011 Historic collection.  And for you strap fanatics, the black strap is very soft and conforms to your wrist extremely well.  Normally this watch would garner more attention because it's a black ceramic watch.  But looks like the new brown composite watches seem to be the more "in" thing now with Panerai fans, myself included.

Nevertheless, if you're looking for a more complicated ceramic PAM292, you may want to take a look at the PAM384.

And below is a shot by Ming of the awesome black strap on the PAM384.  I believe it's buffalo?

 
Next is a model that many seem to like a lot - the Panerai PAM382 Bronzo 47mm Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic.  This 47mm monster tuna can houses the automatic P.9000 in-house movement.  The case and bezel are bronze while the caseback bezel is in titanium.  The caseback bezel is in titanium because you don't want bronze in contant contact with your skin for health reasons.  Unique edition of 1000 pieces.

In the Bronzo prototype above, you can already see the bronze develop patina which will give this Submersible a much desired rugged look which we all Panerai fanatics crave.  Imagine a Bronze Panerai w/ tritium dial.  Now that would be awesome but it won't be happening anytime soon since Panerai no longer uses tritium on its dials.

The dial on the Bronzo has a very slight green tinge to it.  The green is not really noticeable since far away, you would just think the dial is the usual Panerai slate color.

Below are some more pictures by Ming of the Bronzo along with another video.

The racheting of the bezel on the Bronzo feels very solid like that of the PAM305 Submersible I reviewed earlier.

Cheers,
Anthony 

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