Thursday, September 8, 2016

Review Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days GMT Oro Rosso

The P.3001/10 caliber has been nicely finished, with skeletonized barrels and bridges. The bridges have a brushed finish. The watch has a brown alligator strap with a rose-gold buckle. It is water resistant to 50 meters. The Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days GMT Oro Rosso costs $31,800.

The replica Panerai Radiomir watch gets the “3 Days” part of its moniker from its power reserve. Ref. PAM00570 (as the new watch is otherwise known) has a 72-hour power reserve, using two barrels to achieve the full three days of energy. Its caliber, P.3001/10, is hand wound, so that means a little more work for the wearer. But it’s worthwhile when you can turn the watch over and watch the wind decrease gradually, thanks to an arc-shaped power-reserve indicator on the back of the skeletonized movement.

PAM00570 has a small seconds subdial at 9 o’clock; like some of its brethren, there’s also a date aperture at 3 o’clock. But the “GMT” in its name is thanks to its other function: an arrow-shaped, second-time-zone hand, mounted underneath the hour and minutes at the center of the dial. wLastly, there’s “Oro Rosso,” or “red gold” in Italian. The PAM00570 has a 47-mm-wide case made of 5nPt rose gold. This alloy has a higher percentage of copper than some rose golds, in addition to a small amount of platinum, which slows the process of oxidization. The bezel has been polished. Within the case, there’s a brown dial with a sunburst finish. The dial itself uses Panerai’s usual two-level construction, with luminous material from the lower level visible through cut-outs in the brown top layer.

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