A Panerai I wouldn't drown in
By Hannah Lindqvist, Stockholm ยท
Panerai and I have never got along. 44 mm, 47 mm, a crown guard like a padlock bolted to the side. The Luminor Due 38 is the first one I've looked at and thought, maybe.
38 mm across the cushion, 10.1 mm thick, a 20 mm strap. That's genuinely small for this brand. The crown bridge still adds width on the right side, so the real footprint is bigger than 38, but the thin case keeps it reasonable. Blue dial, small seconds, 72 hours from the OP XXXIV, display back.
Then the joke. 30 m of water resistance, from a company whose whole story is built on Italian navy frogmen. I can't get past that. You can't take this into the sea, and it costs 7,000 dollars and up.
Who's it for: someone who has always loved the Panerai look and couldn't wear the big ones. Not someone who swims.