its a long story when i first got into the more expensive watches, my 1st one was a Rolex 14060 in 89. and my best friends brother also fond of watches , was wearing his panerai on my mates BD ... so my mate asked his brother to show me his... (watch...perverts..)
at that moment he had a pre-vendome luminor t-dail, i heard of the make, but that was all, but it never let me go again after. After a few other watches i thought of panerai again , started looking on the web for these and was sold on them...only realizing then what a watch my mates brother had i asked him where his was, he just sold it off for 1200 Euro's!!!!! 3 month's prior ... i thought i dropped dead.. he had really no idea what he had in his hands ... his buddy who he sold iff off to quickly realised what he had , as i offered double for it , but HO HO HO , he did his homework......
but that is how i got round to a Pam for the 1st time... now i suffer from short term memory loss according to my wife as i tend to forget my new purchase directly, and see another i want .... Paneritis .. i think so....