PAM 55...??

[tutima]

Bought this watch from member bruno last week and received it today...Strapped on the GeF and took a few shots for your viewing pleasure...

The only question I have is that according to Risti, PAM 55 supposed to come with a brown dial...DSN sells both the brown dial and the white dial versions...The Japanese risti site does have pics of a white dial PAM 55...So, is there a white dial version of the PAM 55 in the real world...? PAM experts please chime in...Although, I really don't have a problem with a white dial itanium PAM even if it is a fantasy...


The dial looks pretty good...Some lume dots are a bit off but not too bad...

Nice CG and thick crown with flat CG pin...

C series caseback....

Superlumed dial and hands...

Very light AR on the crystal....

 

[LegendofSpeed]

Here's the story behind the white dial 055.... there's a japanese collector who has a huge collection.... like 5 009's, and the like... I mean, he bought the early stuff in large quantities and he has a website devoted to the differences between the individual runs of the watches...

Well... he had an 055.... and I'm not sure if Panerai did it for me him, or if they supplied him the dial (it appears early collectors could get parts from Panerai pretty easily if you were buying multiple watches)... but he put a 010 dial in the 055 case... hence the white dial 055...

At least, that's the story I have seen on paneristi in various places...

And the collector's website? Here it is... http://www.ne.jp/asahi/panerai/carpedie ... INDEX.html

 

[tutima]

Thanks LOS...

Good to know...[smilie=alien.gif]

 

[hooligan]

Yep, there were some assertions that it was a Japanese market only model, but I think the FrankenPAM is a more likely scenario.