Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 8 days Chrono Monopulsante GMT PAM 00311 & PAM 00317

Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 8 days Chrono Monopulsante GMT PAM 00311 & PAM 00317. The PAM 311 and 317, introduced at Basel World 2008 are new variants of the PAM 275. Functionally identical to the PAM 275, the PAM 311 comes in a Titanium Case with a brown dial while the PAM 317 is steel with a black ceramic finish and a black dial.

PAM 311

PAM 317

The Luminor 1950 8 days Chrono Monopulsante GMT, as its long name indicates is a dual time chronograph watch. It has hour, minute, second time zone and a seconds hand on the main dial. It has a thirty minute counter on a sub-dial at 3 o'clock and day-night indicator and sixty second counter in a sub-dial at the 9 o'clock position. At the 6 o'clock position there is a horizontal power reserve indicator. Few watches combine both dual time a chronograph functions.

Dial of the PAM 317

Flyback chronograph. The chronograph features a flyback function. The standard chronograph, has two buttons, a start/stop button and a reset button. In order to restart the chronograph, you press the start/stop button to stop the current lap, press the reset button to bring the seconds hand back to zero and press the start/stop button again to restart the counter.

With a flyback chronograph, you only have one button. To start and stop the counter you press the same button, and press the same button again to bring the seconds hand back to zero. It is useful in case you want to quickly restart the lap counter. Pressing the single button, and keeping it depress will stop the current timer, return the seconds hand to zero and restart the timer.

Manifaturra. The Luminor 1950 8 days Chrono Monopulsante GMT belongs to the manifaturra line, which means that its movement is made by Panerai in house. In this case the movement used is the Panerai Calibre P.2004. This movement is a manual winding mechanical movement with an impressive 8 day power reserve. Panerai Calibre P.2004 produces 28,800 vibrations per hour resulting in smooth sweeping second hand movements.

Panerai Calibre P.2004

Physically, The Luminor 1950 8 days Chrono Monopulsante GMT is a large watch with a 44mm diameter case and water resistant to 100m. The watch comes with a crystal case back so you can admire the very interesting movement.

Profile of the PAM 311

About Panerai. Officine Panerai was founded in 1860 in Florence, Italy by Giovani Panerai. Panerai was acquired over by Swiss watchmaker Richemont S. A. in 1997.