The legendary swiss-Italian watch brand Officine Panerai (owned by Richemont) is adding more muscle to its Radiomir line, with four new versions featuring military green dials. Two of Panerai’s replica watch collections, Radiomir and Luminor have impressive military heritages originally designed and worn by elite underwater commandos of the Italian royal navy.
Panerai Radiomir’s cushion design actually predates the more popular Luminor design, whose prototype was created in 1936. Ranging in size from 45mm to 48mm, the new watch is hardly understated, but branded as a matte green dial with a beige lume “discreet and deliberately elusive.”We’re going to add it very nicely.
The first is the 45mm PAM995, which comes with the thinnest automatic movement of Panerai, the p.4000. At $11,200, it’s the cheapest of four new green dials. The PAM998, priced at $12,000, is a GMT watch with a 45mm casing. The interior is equipped with the p.4001 movement, with the addition of the second time zone and AM/PM indicator light, as well as the power reserve displayed on the side of the fake watch movement.
The 45mm PAM999 costs up to $12,200 and gets a caliber of p.4002, which also offers GMT, but with a power storage indicator on the side of the dial. At $13,300, the 48mm PAM997 was the biggest bad Wolf. It uses a matte black ceramic sandblasted shell, giving it an invisible sports atmosphere, very suitable for the traditional model.
PAM997 has no power reserve indicator, But it offers a cleaner dial in the PAM995 style. Other models have brown or tan leather straps, and the PAM997 has a black “Ponte Vecchio” calfskin strap, known for its carols, which were created in Florence in 1860.
All watches are 10 bar waterproof (100 m deep) and have a green cherry box with satin finish (and spare straps) lined with green leather that nod to the dial. We’re not sure whether these replica watches will win over any diehard Luminor fans, but they may attract some new Luminor fans to the Paneristi group.