
Panerai Manifattura. Panerai sells it Radiomir and Luminor watches under the categories of historic, contemporary and manifattura. The manifattura line is Panerai's line-up of watches with in-house movements built by Panerai.
In many cases, the in-house movements built by the watchmaker do not really offer the buyer anything different from the ETA modified movements. In the case of "built by Panerai", I am glad to say that is not the case.
You will pay a premium when you decide to buy a Panerai manifattura you get something special. When Panerai builds in-house, they do not do it just for the sake of saying built by Panerai, but to give you something different.
Six to ten day power reserves. Whether you select a manual winding or self winding watch from the Panerai manifattura line you get a 6 to 10 day power reserves which is much longer than the 2 to 3 day power reserve of other watches. They also all produce 28,800 vibrations per hour.
The Panerai PAM 190 and 197 also have movements with 8 day power reserves. This older 8 day movements are Panerai modified Jaeger-LeCoultre movements.
GMT the Panerai way. Most GMT watches will a second hour hand to keep track of a second time zone. The primary hour hand (rotating every 12 hours) is read in conjunction with 12 one-hour markers on the dial while the secondary hand (rotating every 24 hours) is read in conjunction with a second set of hour markers on the dial or the bezel. This makes for a busy face.
Panerai manifattura watches primary and secondary hour hands both rotate every 12 hours. In order to show whether or not the GMT hand is indicating AM or PM, a small AM/PM indicator is incorporated into the small seconds hand.

GMT + Chrono. Watchmakers do not often combine GMT and chronograph functions because is make for a very complex bezel and dial. Panerai does this and is able to keep a nice clean face. However, they do not incorporate tachymeter. The Paneria manifiturra chronographs incorporate the flyback function. This allows for single button operation and from a nice clean casing not clutter with pushers.

Our other articles on the Panerai manifattura line-up:
- Officine Panerai Radiomir Luminor 1950 8 Days GMT PAM 233 and PAM 289
- Officine Panerai Radiomir PAM 268
- Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 10 Days GMT PAM 270
- Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 8 days Chrono Monopulsante GMT PAM 311 & PAM 317
- Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 Titanium Tourbillon GMT PAM 306
- Officine Panerai Radiomir Titanium Tourbillon GMT PAM 315
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