A GLASS AND METAL LADY

Two years of development were needed to perfect the new material from which the case is constructed in this timepiece from Panerai which was presented at Geneva at the SIHH (Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie – International Fine Watchmaking Exhibition).

This year, the “think tank” used all its creative energy to develop highly technical products in the Luminor 1950 collection, and more particularly in the Luminor Submersible family of sports watches. One of these watches, called Luminor Submersible 1950 BMG-TECH^TM 3 Days, uses a material unprecedented in watchmaking: metallic glass. Its development at Panerai took two years, designing a complete case at the Neuchâtel factory – that is the body, bezel, crown and crown protection device – produced in BMG-TECH^TM metallic glass.

In the centre of the blue dial, whose brilliance offers the same kind of luminosity, depth and translucidity as enamel, two large, luminescent, regatta hands with cut-outs sweep past an hour rim made up of applied markers and dots. The seconds are counted down by a recessed counter at the 9 o’clock position that has a small blue hand, and the date is shown in a display at the 3 o’clock position.

Price: 9,900 EUR

By Sharmila Bertin