Size Changes for Luminors

[Tomeng01]

I was talking to my SA at Panerai. They are discontinuing the 42mm Luminor and moving that size to the Luminor Due. I'm finding it a bit strange and pretty dramatic. So hopefully it's wrong. 42mm fits my smaller wrist well. But I prefer the thickness, brushed case and case shape of the Luminor.

As explained to me, moving forward the lineup will be:

Luminor: 40mm, 44mm, 47mm

Luminor Due: 38mm, 42mm

 

[papabear244]

It might sound odd but it actually make some sense. For both lines, they want a big and a small size.

For Due, small is 38 and big is 42.
For Luminor, small is 40 and big is 44+

But i don’t know what are they going to do with the current 42 luminor models, I mean they are still selling (1392, 1394 etc). The whole scheme is already bust from inception.


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[KOT1917]

Thank you for telling us. Interesting. Will Luminor due 45mm go away this way too?

I wonder how the 40mm luminor 1950 will be implemented to maintain an adequate proportion of diameter and thickness.

And of course, I wonder if the PAM1394 will see the light of day, taking into account all these transformations, since a white 40mm dial is planned as well.

Well .. We'll see...

 

[Tomeng01]

Good questions! I did not ask specifically about the 45mm Luminor, so I'm not sure.

The sales rep said they were getting in a 40mm white dial Luminor, but didn't give me much details. It seemed like they were referring to a smaller version of the 1314, implying the 1394 would not see the light of day. You know I'm interested as I just picked up the VSF 1394 ;-)

They were also very excited about a white dial sub! I think a 42mm. I don't have much more details, but that's not for this thread.