Panerai Submersible PAM01507

Panerai Submersible GMT Luna Rossa Titanio in Brushed Titanium on Blue Rubber Strap with Blue Dial and Blue Bezel

Model : PAM01507 Case Material : Brushed Titanium Case Size : 42mm Movement : Automatic Dial : Blue Bracelet : Blue Rubber Retail Price : 12,300 Panerai started its involvement with the America’s Cup in 2017, as the Official Partner of the Oracle Team USA and Softbank Team Japan. It wasn’t until 2019 that the watch firm became Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli’s sponsor. They’ve seen Luna Rossa through six years of development and, of course, the dark years of Covid. Over these six years of partnership, Panerai has produced a watch for each year of racing. The 2024 Luna Rossa is powered by the automatic, hacking P.900/GMT 28,800 4 Hz movement. Appropriately enough, it packs rather a lot – 171 components and 23 jewels for a start – into racing snake dimensions. The P.900 is a mere ship’s biscuit crumb over 4 mm thick – that’s about two and a half 20p pieces stacked on top of each other. It’s 28 mm in diameter. In your 4.2 mm of movement you get a 3 day power reserve (powered by a bidirectional winding weight) stored in a single barrel. You also get a 24 hour GMT complication; downright handy if you’re doing the sort of jet-setting required of ocean yacht crews. If you take a look at the tip of the GMT hand, you’ll see a nod to the Luna Rossa team; it’s shaped like the AC75’s sails. The rosso colour carries across to the small seconds dial at 9. The Luna Rossa is, appropriately, given the name, a cinch to read at night too. To be fair, a Panerai watch tends to emit such an intense lume it makes an ideal torch substitute. However, this new model takes the whole lume thing a stage further. The indices and the hour hand have green lacquer accents, but the firm has used a new Super-LumiNova® material, X2, on the indices with Super-LumiNova® X-1 on the minute hands and for the dots on the bezel. Super-LumiNova® X2 has a claimed 10% greater luminosity after 180 minutes in the dark than its predecessor. The Rossa’s case is titanium, though – Grade 5 in this instance – making it 40% lighter and 60% harder than stainless steel. This isn’t just window dressing. If you’re trying to wind a winch, those few grams of weight will make a big difference to how your watch feels on your wrist.