Panerai begon met het maken van de ultieme gereedschapsklokken. Grote, ruwe timepieces die bestemd zijn om aan de polsen van serieuze mannen gevangen te worden. Het is op dit erfgoed dat Panerai hun merk heeft gebouwd. Voor veel zijn hun horloges het symbool van macho elegantie. Maar tijden veranderen, en merken evolueren. De robuuste en betrouwbare duikers zijn zeker de onwrikbare kern in Panerai's line-up, maar de laatste jaren zien we het merk steeds meer in de wateren van Haute Horlogerie.
Which brings us to the Radiomir 1940 Minute Repeater Carillon, Panerai’s most technical effort to date. Usually having a 49mm red gold case is impressive enough, but here, the Radiomir case plays second fiddle to the skeletonised P.2005/MR movement inside. Not only does this movement have a minute repeater complication, meaning it chimes the time on demand, but it does so with the added panache of a carillon – typically a musical arrangement of bells. Here the bells are replaced with an arrangement of gongs and three hammers (rather than the typical two) allowing for a more melodic sounding of the time.
Normally you’d expect a watch with this sort of energy intensive complication to have a two or three day power reserve, but you can expect four full days of power on this watch.
But Panerai hasn’t stopped there, they’ve also used their patented, perpendicular tourbillon in this watch, as well as a second time zone. And the final technical innovation is that you can, using the crown, set the repeater to chime either the home or second time zones. To my knowledge no one else has implemented this dual-time repeater system before. As I said, this is a very impressive movement.
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