Hi friends, wanted to share with you my old school Pam 005, this is my first Panerai and actually deciding if I can get used to wear a 44 in my almost 7" wrist. Bought it here: https://www.rwg.bz/board/index.php?/topic/167934-3-old-school-pams-005-360-390/
Seller (a gentleman) claims that is either a noob or H, maybe some of our experienced friends in the Pam section will know the maker. Doesn't look like a shitter to me, but you never know.
As with all my replicas, I always send them to their usual maintenance. Luckily here isn't that expensive, so it's always a must to do when I receive one, specially if it's used.
Case back was retreated in the lathe, as apparently it wasn't threading properly.
As you may have noticed, the crown lever was a little protrude from the CG, at first I thought it could be fixed in the maintenance, but my watchsmith said that it was fixed and can't leave it flushed with the CG.
Anyways, I started using as is, but the OCD was ticking so I took it back and asked him to fix it, and to the milling machine she went. Mod went better than expected, maybe not perfect but significantly finer.
Sorry for the long post.
PR is strong 38+ hours, waterproof test passed, maybe some polish to the case back is needed, but any comment is welcome, good or bad. I think if I decide to keep it I would like to change the crystal which in some angle has distortion (actually don't know if the Gen is the same or a flaw). And of course buy a rubber band, as well as a better leather strap.
Thanks for all your inputs.
shoutout to @r0b9502 who helped me to upload the photos with his August post.
Seller (a gentleman) claims that is either a noob or H, maybe some of our experienced friends in the Pam section will know the maker. Doesn't look like a shitter to me, but you never know.
As with all my replicas, I always send them to their usual maintenance. Luckily here isn't that expensive, so it's always a must to do when I receive one, specially if it's used.
Case back was retreated in the lathe, as apparently it wasn't threading properly.
As you may have noticed, the crown lever was a little protrude from the CG, at first I thought it could be fixed in the maintenance, but my watchsmith said that it was fixed and can't leave it flushed with the CG.
Anyways, I started using as is, but the OCD was ticking so I took it back and asked him to fix it, and to the milling machine she went. Mod went better than expected, maybe not perfect but significantly finer.
Sorry for the long post.
PR is strong 38+ hours, waterproof test passed, maybe some polish to the case back is needed, but any comment is welcome, good or bad. I think if I decide to keep it I would like to change the crystal which in some angle has distortion (actually don't know if the Gen is the same or a flaw). And of course buy a rubber band, as well as a better leather strap.
Thanks for all your inputs.
shoutout to @r0b9502 who helped me to upload the photos with his August post.
