$4,830
Officine Panerai Firenze 1860, "Mare Nostrum",No. 459, model 5218 - 301 A, circa 1996.Large and extremely rare, water-resistant to 50 meters, stainless steel "Aisi 316 L", military-type diving wristwatch with with round button chronograph, register and tachometer, 30 hours power-reserve, a dark blue leather strap with a large stainless steel buckle. polished and brushed, screwed down dedicated back, manual winding system, tachometer graduation on the bezel. black with ISO 8/3 tritium-coated Arabic numerals and indexes, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, sapphire crystal. "Bâton" tritium-coated hands. Notes The Panerai Mare Nostrum watch is a reissue of the timepiece that Panerai designed for the Italian Navy in the 1940's, and was intended for use by Officers aboard ship.Due to the outbreak of the war, this special navy - styled chronograph with luminous dial never entered into production.Panerai offers it now, based on the original design drawings.The dials of the first Panerai watches, in the 1940's, were made with diverse superposed plates fitted with each other : the bottom plate was luminous with "Radiomir" or "Luminor". The dial plate was pierced, so that the numbers were visible through the slots. Panerai very soon noticed that the Radiomir was slightly radioactive, so they changed for the Luminor.The numerals, indexes and hands of the present model are made with tritium, which has no radioactive effect at all.From Various Owners
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-03-16
