Panerai Mare Nostrum Chronograph PAM716 Watch Review

The Panerai Mare Nostrum Chronograph PAM716 measures just 42mm wide. This is not a new-found thing either. There were some limited editions produced in Panerai's pre-Vendome era. More Panerai look alike watches.

The km/h bezel is, to put it kindly, a mysterious addition on a watch supposedly designed for ship commanders. Add to this the fact that this being a regular tachymeter scale, any other unit of speed would work just the same. Take this as a hint on how many people actually use the tachymeter scales on their luxury watches.

On a positive note, Panerai Mare Nostrum Chronograph is one exceedingly unusual Panerai. The traditional, piston-style chronograph pushers, the tachymeter bezel, the small case size, the nicely curved, long lugs, and the blue-tan color combination individually would make any Panerai the odd one out.

Panerai Mare Nostrum Chronograph PAM716, which is equipped with a 42mm-wide, 50 meter water resistant case in stainless steel, a blue dial with tan colored luminescent indices and main hands, a km/h bezel, and a weird and unusual OP XXXIII movement which is actually an ETA 2801 with a Dubois-Depraz module for the chronograph. It has an expectedly measly 42-hour power reserve.

Panerai Luminor 1950 PCYC Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic PAM00652

Panerai Luminor 1950 PCYC Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic PAM00652 is large, which is typical for Panerai, with a 47mm titanium case. In addition to being a flyback chronograph, it is a true regatta watch with a countdown timer, which is used for the crucial 15-minute jockeying for position that begins a yacht race. While any chronograph can track a 15-minute time period, it is inefficient for yacht racers since it requires the user to stop the hand, then return to zero and then press start again in order to begin timing the race.Related Noob Factory Replica Panerai.

A countdown timer automatically begins timing the race when the countdown is finished. The 15-minute scale is printed twice; once on the deep flange and again at the edge of the dial, with the final five minutes highlighted. The chronograph minutes hand, which runs on the central dial, is white to distinguish it from the central chronograph seconds, which is gold.

The black dial is marked with contrasting beige subdials, numerals and a minute track, and faux vintage lume on the hour and minute hand creates even more contrast. Thus, the dial is clean and easy to read, despite the multiple functions. The chronograph hour totalizer is in a subdial at 3 o’clock. The running seconds is in a subdial at 9 o’clock.

The strap is natural untreated leather in brown with beige top stitching. A nice touch is the OP logo that is heat stamped onto the strap close to where it meets the lugs. It contains the P.9100/R (R for Regatta, signifying the countdown function).

Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge Watches 2017 Review

For 2017, Panerai launched two special PCYC timepieces — Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic Acciaio, and Luminor 1950 Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Titanio. Watchcloneprice - who makes the best Panerai clone watches at cheap price, replica watches sale online.

Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge Watches 2017 feature 44-mm-diameter cases in corrosion-resistant AISI 316L stainless steel; like all Luminor 1950 cases, they are equipped with Panerai’s familiar (and patented) lever-locking bridge device for the winding crown, which ensures the watch is water-resistant to 100 meters. The solid steel caseback is engraved with the image of a vintage yacht and the words “PANERAI CLASSIC YACHTS CHALLENGE.” Beneath that solid caseback ticks Panerai’s in-house automatic P.9100 caliber, which includes a flyback chronograph function, with a vertical clutch and column wheel, and stores a three-day (72-hour) power reserve in two series-connected spring barrels.

The dial of 2017 special PCYC watches is offered with either a black dial with beige Arabic hour numerals (Ref. PAM00653) or an ivory dial with beige hour markers and blue details (Ref. PAM00654). The black-dial model comes on an untreated brown leather strap with beige stitching; the beige stitching, which echoes the color of the hour markers, also appears on the brown leather strap of the ivory-dialed version. The pusher at 10 o’clock starts, stops, and resets the chronograph, while the one at 8 o’clock instantly zeroes and re-starts the chronograph hands without the need to stop and restart with the other pusher.

The dial was designed for legibility of the watch’s various readouts, with the central chronograph minutes hands in different colors, the chronograph hours recorded on the subdial at 3 o’clock and the running seconds displayed on the subdial at 9 o’clock. Both watches’ dials have luminous treatment on the hands and hour markers and a tachymeter scale in knots (nautical miles) along the flange, which can be used with the chronograph to calculate the average speed of a yacht over a particular distance.

Panerai Caliber P.9100/R, a modified version of Caliber P.9100 with an added module for the countdown function. Like the Flyback models, this watch features a tachymeter scale in knots and beige, luminous hour markers on the dial whose color is echoed in the strap’s contrast stitching. The strap is made of natural untreated leather and fastens to the wrist with a titanium clasp with a heat-stamped “OP” (Officine Panerai) logo.