Luminor 1950 PCYC 3 Days Chrono Flyback Automatic AccIaio – 44mm

From Panerai -

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This is one of two new releases brought out this year as the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge approaches.

It is available with an off-white / ivory colored dial (above) with the following specs (straight from Panerai):

MOVEMENT  
Automatic mechanical, P.9100 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai.  
FUNCTIONS 
Hours, minutes, small seconds, seconds reset, flyback chronograph, knots scale for calculation of average boat speed. 
CASE 44 mm, AISI 316L polished steel.  
DIAL Ivory with luminous hour markers and dots. Chronograph hour counter at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minute hands, knot scale on the rehaut. POWER RESERVE 72H.  
WATER-RESISTANCE 10 bar (~100 metres). 

And it is also available in a black dialed version -

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 And here are the pertinents for the black dialed model -

MOVEMENT Automatic mechanical, P.9100 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai.  
FUNCTIONS Hours, minutes, small seconds, seconds reset, yback chronograph, knots scale for calculation of average boat speed. CASE 44 mm, AISI 316L polished steel.  
DIAL Black with luminous Arabic numerals. Chronograph hour counter at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minute hands, knot scale on the rehaut. POWER RESERVE 72H.  
WATER-RESISTANCE 10 bar (~100 metres).

 

Beguiling

While I realize that Panerai is not everybody's jam, I have to say that this one has been whispering to me in the night as I drift in and out of wakefulness.  This is the Luminor Base Logo Acciaio 44 mm.

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On the surface you could say - standard Panerai, not a "true" manufacture, ETA based movement, blah, blah, blah...

But it's the little things.  The blue logo between PANERAI and the number 6 is so out of the expected that I have come to be disappointed if I don't see it.  That is, of course, an irrational attraction, but then I've been told that I'm not always a rational fellow ; )  

And the "aged" look of the lume dots and hands really just speak to me.

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44 mm stainless steel, hand winding movement (Panerai OP 1 calibre).  Hours and minutes only - because in all honesty, what else do you need?

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