PANERAI Luminor Perpetual Calendar PLATINUMTECH™

This is the new Luminor Perpetual Calendar Platinumtech AKA PAM00742 which with its 66'800CHF price tag is the pinnacle of current Panerai’s Luminor collection – 

just above it its GOLDTECH™ equivalent, PAM00742 and it is one mightily impressive timepiece.

Its 44mm in diameter, 5 bar ~50 meters water-resistant case has been executed from Platinumtech™ which much like the Goldtech™ is another -

Panerai’s Laboratorio di Idee developed alloy based on the noble metal that has been enhanced and reformulated to increase its physical and aesthetic properties such as its hardness.

I’m honesty not sure what Platinumtech™ is alloyed with but I know that it’s supposed to preserve the watch’s new looks for a lifetime or more. 

Platinumtech™ has been lavished on all of the watches external components: the main case, polished fixed bezel, case-back, crown and of course Panerai’s signature crown-locking device with lever.

All that lovely Platinumtech™ has been paired with a dark green, sun-brushed dial itself highlighted with gold from the watches two handsets. 

The dial is with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers as well as day of the week date at 3 o'clock, seconds and 24h indicator at 9 o’clock.

Meanwhile if you look at the watch’s underside there is the epic Panerai P.4100 caliber but with a solid Goldtech™ rotor. The movement has been executed entirely by Panerai. Its spec. includes: 15 1/2 lignes (35.1 mm), 7.0 mm thick, 55 jewels, Glucydur® balance, a beat-rate of 28,800 alternations/hour (equivalent to 4 Hz), KIF® anti-shock device, seconds reset Stop Balance wheel and a power-reserve of 3 days thanks to twin barrels. Its functions include: hours, Minutes, small seconds, date, day, month, year, leap year, GMT, power reserve indicator, perpetual calendar, seconds reset.

Finally this very Platinumtech™ has been combined with a red-brown hand-stitched (with ecru contrast stitching) 24mm alligator strap. 

Thoughts? Like this? Why not check out the its baby brother, the LUMINOR MARINA Platinumtech™.