Disappointing Visit to Panerai Boutique Today

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Visiting Las Vegas for a trade show and I had a free day, so I headed over to the Panerai Boutique at the Forum Shops at Ceasar's Palace.

To say it's a Boutique or store is an overstatement, it's more of a closet, very small store. There were a couple very stuffy salesmen and no more than 20-25 watches on site.

I am interested in the 1537, Luminor GMT with Power Reserve in the 42mm size. I have tried on Panerai watches before in the 44mm size and they are way too large for my wrist.

The salesman told me that they no longer make 42mm watches in the Luminor line despite them being shown on their website, and that they haven't seen that watch in the 44mm size for quite a while either.

I tried another model in 44mm and it was much too wide for my wrist, lug to lug wasn't bad. The only 42mm they had was a submersible and that did fit a bit better.

I guess the look for a new watch will have to go on.