47mm Luminor 1950. While the most recognizable and popular Panerai design is the 44mm Luminor case with a bridge device with clamping lever added, to protect the winding crown and making it more water-resistant, the historically correct size for for this design was 47 millimeters. This is not the first Luminor 1950 case in 47mm. The most notable 47mm Luminor 1950 was the Officine Panerai PAM00127, a Special Edition watch manufactured in a limited quantity of 1950 pieces. It is good to see a 47mm Luminor 1950 case in a regular production watch. It will be somewhat easier to get than a Special Edition, but finding one will still be difficult since Officine Panerai limits the number of its regular production watches to, to around 4000 pieces per model per year.
Officine Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days 47mm PAM00372. The Panerai PAM 372 is a base model watch, displaying only the hours and the minutes. It is a classic design similar to to post World War II Italian Navy watches. The dial is classic Panerai with Arabic numbers at the 3, 6, 9 and 12 o'clock positions. The dial is a sandwich dial, which consist of of two superimposed discs, the upper one of which is perforated to form the hour markers through which the the luminous material can be seen. The stainless steel case is water resistant to 100 meters.
Like the Panerai PAM 372, this watch also has Plexiglas crystal, this time 3 mm thick. Plexiglass or acrylic glass used to be common in watchmaking until the 1980's, after which mineral glass and sapphire crystal glass was used instead. I guess with the classic themes of these years Panerai's, the company wanted to give it watches a more authentic historical design by using acrylic crystals.
P.3000 calibre. The PAM 373 is also powered by Officine Panerai's new P.3000 calibre. This is an in-house movement entirely designed by Officine Panerai and manufactured in Neuchâtel facility. The P.3000 calibre has a three day power reserve and produces 21,600 vibrations per hour. The movement can be viewed through a sapphire crystal case back.
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.
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