Panerai are brand that are probably more familiar with bronze than most having worked with it as far back as the mid-1980s when they created a bronze variant of the legendary Mille Metri military prototype watch for the Italian Navy;
however they didn’t actually debut their first production bronze timepiece (PAM00382) until 2011, kicking off a of bit niche trend which is still going strong today and which is why since then they have released a number of bronze Submersible models.
But what distinguishes the 2021 Submersible Bronzo apart from its predecessors is that unlike them it has been executed in a more manageable 42mm diameter rather than 47mm which has typically been used in that past such as for PAM00671.
This means that the wider luxury watch buying public which includes those ladies and gents that don’t fully appreciate the virtues of wearing diving clunky instrument-sized watches can now enjoy some of Panerai’s more specialist timepieces.
Thrown into the mix with along with the patinated bronze case (and its components) as well as the abyss blue dial is some old school colored beige SuperLuminova adding that finishing vintage touch.
Powering the new limited to 1’000 pieces, Submersible Bronze Blu Abisso is an in-house P.900. automatic caliber with 3 days of autonomy. The P.900 can be viewed though a hypoallergenic Titanium case-back. MSRP in the US is approx. 15’900USD.
Thoughts? Bronze and blue is a great look! As to 42mm; honestly while I do still wear larger watches; I think that 42mm is the way to go. But what do you think?
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