THE panerai model.?

[chromed.]

most of us knw pams r really just 5 MAIN models with many various variations, right.?

do correct me if i'm wrong.. but i question here would be.. which wld be THE pam u'd buy given the main categories.?

Panerai Base.
Panerai Submersible.
Panerai Luminor.
Panerai 1950s.
Panerai Radiomir.

:thinking:

 

[Mambo]

You are forgetting the Radiomir ...

 

[frigpig]

Base. 112
Sub. 194
The rest kinda don't do anything for me.

Your also forgetting they split them up in "historic" and "contemporary" categories.
Comtemperary being anything with an in-house movement.

 

[ikiestik]

Your forgetting the radiomir my friend.

Luminor marina/base/chrono/auto. chrono and auto come in 40/44mm these have the same shape case.

Luminor submersible 44/47mm some have the same luminor case and others have the 1950 "cushion" case and are all auto mvt.

Luminor 1950 44/47mm has the 1950 "cushion" case with the crown guard, come with both manual and auto mvt.

Radiomir 42/45/47mm have the cushion case and screw down onion shaped crown with wire lugs, come with both manual and auto/chrono. but the 42/47mm come only with manual.

Some novelties include

the egiziano 60mm manual mvt panerai only made this in 60mm and with 8 day manual mvt.

Then you have the mare nostrum 52mm manual chrono mvt.

Lo scienziato 48mm radiomir composite ceramic, manual wind tourbillon mvt.

L'astronomo 50mm 1950 luminor case, manual mvt



If I had the choice of any of them it would have to be a 44mm luminor marina manual or auto the case fits my wrist perfectly and is very classic.

P

 

[chromed.]

You are forgetting the Radiomir ...

oh damn.. how cld i forget!! :facepalm: updated!!

intention here is to just classify them by their "style", "look" or "function".. whether pre-v, contempary, chronos or whichever..

 

[MrYesterday]

I go for size more than model. I'd take a 47mm rad, sub, or fiddy, before their 44mm counterparts.

 

[COLDI]

Forgot the vintage line completely:
6152/1
6154
2533
3646

 

[chromed.]

actually tts what i'm trying to get at.. not think about e line, name or anything.. just mayb focusing on e very very main style of a pam

 

[Dr.Verylong]

base.112 or 113

 

[Mambo]

For me it must be a base luminor .... 112

 

[hooligan]

most of us knw pams r really just 5 MAIN models with many various variations, right.?

do correct me if i'm wrong.. but i question here would be.. which wld be THE pam u'd buy given the main categories.?

Panerai Base.
Panerai Submersible.
Panerai Luminor.
Panerai 1950s.
Panerai Radiomir.

:thinking:

All of these listed, except for the Radiomir *are* Luminors, though. They are just variations on the Luminor - rotating diver's bezel, 1950 style case, etc.

So, if you include all base dials, regardless of size and style of case in the "Panerai Base", that would be my choice without a doubt. Base models (off the top of my head):
Radiomir 210 - 45mm, SS
Radiomir 231 - 45mm, Rose Gold
Radiomir 232 - 47mm, SS, gold hands
Radiomir 249 - 47mm, SS, California dial
Radiomir 262 - 47mm, Platinum, California dial
Radiomir 373 - 47mm, Platinum, 2533 dial
Radiomir 376 - 47mm, white gold, California dial
Radiomir 379 - 47mm, rose gold
Luminor 000 - 44mm, SS, logo dial
Luminor 112 - 44mm, SS
Luminor 176 - 44mm, Ti
Luminor 114 - 44mm, SS, white dial
Luminor 219 - 44mm, SS, destro
Luminor 372 - 47mm, SS

Not to mention any of the Pre-V base dials.

I think I could live with just selecting from those models, absolutely.

:bananalama:

 

[Nash]

If I could only have one it would be a 196.

 

[justlounging]

Base 111/112

 

[Asheron82]

for me, it would be either 112 or 000

 

[chromed.]

idea here is to classify them by e case style&dial style not considering size, i guess..

Pam Base - eg. 000, 112, 113, 219, etc etc.
Pam Luminor - 111, 177, etc etc.
Pam Submersible - errrr, 24a, 25a, etc etc.
Pam 1950s - 127, 217, 212, 253, etc etc.
Pam Rad - 210, 183, 288, etc etc.

tho i feel e rad has its own root models as well.. :s

well, my pick would be:-

Panerai Base - 219
Panerai Luminor - 111
Panerai Submersible - not sure of model number but its e Arktos ( correct me if i'm wrong but i'm lead to believe e Arktos is consider part of e Sub series pams )
Panerai 1950s - 212
Panerai Radiomir - 183 or 210.
Pam Vintage - 6152

this, to me, wld be like a complete collection of pams

 

[Mambo]

For me it must be a base luminor .... 112

Pam 24D submersible
Pam 1950's 212
Pam Radiomir 288 or 210


And a nice 111 or 177 to complete it all :thinking:

 

[MMs]

woah now.

how come I keep seeing 111 and 113 being listed as "base" models.
that's not the case in my mind.

"base" isn't even a major panerai style, I don't see how it differs from the luminor
at all except for the seconds hand. that's what makes it a base, is the lack of a
seconds hand, just hours, minutes. it uses the same casesets as the conterparts
that run seconds.

if you're going to break panerai up into a few basic categories, I'd do it by casesets.
and base is not a caseset, it's just a dial configuration.

this is how I'd split up Panerai:

Ferrari:

Pre-V:

(pre-V is cool enough for it's own slot )

Luminor:

Mare Nostrum:

Submersible:

Radiomir:

1950:

and vintage get's its own category, but there's several different casesets
for vintage, and being that's a world of it's own, I think it's best not to
get into that here.


Panerai though blurs it's own lines all the time.
there's 1950's style caseset submersibles for example, so it's hard to
strongly define their watches into categories. their own classification
system for their watches is very loose.

 

[hooligan]

woah now.

how come I keep seeing 111 and 113 being listed as "base" models.
that's not the case in my mind.

"base" isn't even a major panerai style, I don't see how it differs from the luminor
at all except for the seconds hand. that's what makes it a base, is the lack of a
seconds hand, just hours, minutes. it uses the same casesets as the conterparts
that run seconds....

Agreed, the 111 and 113 are NOT base models. Base = no seconds hand and it is most definitely a model distinction made by Panerai, themselves.

The Luminor sub-categories should, IMO, be:

Base
Marina
1950
Submersible

 

[MMs]

I struggle with what to call the caseset that that 111 sits in.
I now call it a Luminor case, because that's how I see it labeled and classed on
many lists, like panerai source and whatnot...

but Luminor is really like another dial attribute, and not a caseset, kind of like the
base thing. there's Luminors in several casesets, like you have listed there. but
calling it a base case doesn't really work, because base is already a term set to use
for describing a basic dial. maybe Marina is an applicable term for the caseset, but
not all of them in that case are labeled Marina. taking the 112 as an example.

 

[Replica Replica]

I am itching to get the ridiculously big, PAM 341, its 60mm but classic Panerai.