New Panerai broken

[shammad10]

I bought my first new Panerai submersible from the boutique- was pleased with it at the time.
I was about to buy it, but decided to look at it under the loupe and found a few large bits of dust etc under the crystal on the dial. I showed the SA who said that it would need to go back and he got me another one out.

That quality control should’ve been my first clue that Panerai wasn’t quite up to scratch.

I have been really enjoying the watch- the lack of hacking seconds is annoying as I couldn’t set the watch properly- but who cares really, other than I was suspicious that it was running around 10s quick a day or so.

Over the last few days its been running 4 minutes fast every hour!!!! It’s not magnetised, I used my mates demagnetiser on it and no luck. It’s obviously under warranty and I’ll take it back to the boutique next week- but that is really disappointing.
Have never had this kind of issue with Rolex, Omega or IWC. It kind of tarnishes the brand a bit and at the moment I am tempted to get it sorted and just sell it.