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Originally Posted by swish77
Also, the article loses some credibility, IMHO, when it calls Panerai a “laughing stock of the horological world” at the beginning.
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To understand the laughing stock thing you need to have followed me for a while. The modern Panerai is notorious for misrepresenting the history of the original company. For instance, all references made between 1936 and 1955 were Rolex Oyster watches with a Panerai-made dial. Rolex sent the watches to Florence with a provisional white dial. There is no mentioning of this fact in their literature. Instead they claim Rolex provided only movements to Panerai. Movements, nota bene, which were manufactured by Cortébert, not Rolex.
https://perezcope.com/2019/08/02/vin...-frankenstein/
https://perezcope.com/2019/05/27/rol...ice-from-1955/
Then there is of course the PAM 203 controversy where they purportedly installed historical NOS Angelus 240 movements which turned out to be cheap key-winding calibers converted to crown-winding.
https://perezcope.com/2016/11/04/the...t-the-pam-203/
They also like to manipulate historical pictures to back their made-up history line. The best story however, is the fact that they are posting Chinese super replicas on their official Instagram. When I pointed this out they had my Instagram account disabled, not once but three times.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CD219AMHgfa/
Here's another interesting story on tritium-based lume.
https://perezcope.com/2019/11/30/lum...um-based-lume/
Cheers
Jose