If you look at my “Join date” under my username you’ll see that I am here for a looooong time. PAM’s have been more popular in terms of avilability in the past, there were a few factories making them, some of them even the same models and the competition was huge. They were releasing all the possible references that you can imagine that the movement complexity allowed to make some really good replications in terms of visual and functional aspects.
Since a couple of years some of the factories that in the past made some really nice PAM reps ceased their production and decided to focus on some other brands. Don’t know why and makes no sense for me since IMHO after Rolex, Panerai is still the brand nr.2 among rep collectors (at least here on the forum). The market now is mainly dependent on one single factory making new models, VSF. All other factories such as ZF, XF, Noob,have some models available but they have been in production since years and they seem to have lost interest in developing new ones.
How did I managed to buy so much PAM’s? The 1st rep I bought in 2004. and the last one yesterday. Sold some along the way but in 99,9% cases I buy to keep them in the collection (there was a period I dropped from 30+ pcs to only a couple of the best ones, bad decision I won’t be repeating). Rarely you can see me selling some stuff.
The M2M section regarding PAM’s has been a battlefield in the past 1yr., most cases you have to be the fastest finger. Prepare to loose your social life, forget about wife, kids and work. Focus only on M2M and pray to be the 1st in line. There are some other tricks how to build a nice collection but I cannot disclose you all the secrets. 6 pcs. is already a nice start, I hope your plans for adding some more will have a positive ending. Good luck!
