Help: Are the guys on Community wearing PAMs?

[WatchDoc]

(yes, I posted this in the Flame Free group, but I'm hoping the studs here can help me out.)

If you've seen "Community" on NBC (in the US) I think Jeff might wear a 251. The big lumps next to the crown guard suggest it's a chrono (like the 251). "Troy" wears the watch on his right wrist, and I think he has a sinistra with the crown on the wrong side. I think his might be a 051 white face w/ SS bracelet. This is going to drive me nuts! Anyone else notice this?
251

051

 

[mr_clark]

Antonio Banderas on Craig Ferguson

I was watching the episode from yesterday of Craig Ferguson's show and I'm 90% sure that Antonio Banderas was also wearing a Panerai.

Hard to tell but it sure looked like it to me.

Anybody else notice that?

 

[hooligan]

A "sinistra"?

 

[dolphinfreindly]

sinistra is left handed in Italain

 

[hooligan]

Ah, I see. Left handed Panerai models are referred to as "Destro" models.

I think Community is funny, I'll have to keep an out for that.

 

[WatchDoc]

I'm better at Spanish, so I kinda recalled the term "Destro" but in Spanish Derecha is "right", so I put "sinistra". My Italian was off, but my Latin roots were on target. In my defense, I didn't spend another 15 min googling to check my facts, but I did make a quick check of my PAM catalog before starting the thread, but I didn't see any left handed stems.

 

[hooligan]

http://www.panerai.com/s_page.xpd?id_lingua=2&id_sezione=16&id_prodotto=4844&id_categoria=33

http://www.panerai.com/s_special_ed...sezione=16&id_prodotto=7920&id_categoria=7899

 

[mjcrna]

Banderas definately has one. I saw it in a photo in People magazine recently. The CG was clearly visible under his jacket.

 

[Ausin]

Well in fact sinistro could be translated to spanish as siniestro to and destro to diestro.

 

[hyperion]

It's common to use left and right in Italian--you can see the Sinistro / Destro markings the tyre warmers for the Ferrari F1 team. Sinistro does indeed mean "left" and originates from the Latin. Interestingly, as left-handedness historically took on negative connotations, the word "sinistra/sinistro" came to be a synonym for bad or unlucky things--and is the basis for the English word "sinister".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness#Negative_associations_of_left-handedness_in_language

When PAN says "Destro" they must be referring to the fact that the watch is worn on the right hand, not that the wearer is right-handed. (So the idea that a normal PAN is in fact a "Sinistro" is not completely incorrect.)