Panerai Luminor Yachts Challenge 2019 (Specifications and Price)
Panerai presents three new chronographs designed to face the most demanding challenges of the sea with style, strength and fortitude. These three new watches – in titanium, matt black ceramic and gold – have the unmistakable Panerai design and impressive mechanical movements, created by the Laboratorio di Idee at the Manufacture in Neuchâtel to deliver reliability, toughness and precision to admirers of high quality sports watchmaking.
The new Luminor Yachts Challenge watches are a tribute to the long association of the world of the sea and Panerai which, as a tribute to its own past, has in recent years made a remarkable contribution to preserving the culture of classic yachts, through the races of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge.
This tribute is made clear by the letters “PCYC” inscribed on the dial and the outline of a sailing yacht on the back. In the case of the titanium and ceramic models this image is engraved, while in the gold chronograph it seems almost to float above the movement, being reproduced on the sapphire glass porthole in the back of the watch.
All three Panerai Luminor Yachts Challenge watches have the same iconic case design with the device protecting the winding crown, and the functions and features of the P.9100 automatic manufacture movement – flyback chronograph with a power reserve of three days, seconds reset, speed calculator expressed in knots through the tachymeter scale on the flange, and rapid hour adjustment. They also have the same dial with two sub-dials (small seconds at nine o’clock and chronograph hours at 3 o’clock) and sandwich construction, so they are perfectly visible even in the dark.
The three chronographs are distinguished by the colour combinations of the dial and strap, which differ according to the case material, but all of them are blue, the colour of the sea, and several details give each individual watch a powerful, distinctive personality.
The different materials used to make the Luminor cases of the three models – titanium in the PAM00764, black ceramic based on zirconium oxide in the PAM00788, and 5NPT gold in the PAM01020 – mean that clients can choose between a sportier, more technical look or a more classic, precious one.
All of them are technically excellent and they are designed to be solid and tough as well as resistant to external agents and to corrosion. Their water-resistance is guaranteed to a depth of 100 metres (10 bar) for the ceramic and the titanium models, and to 50 metres (5 bar) for the model in gold.
Panerai Luminor Yachts Challenge – 44mm PAM00764
Technical specifications:
Movement: Automatic mechanical, P.9100 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai. 13 3⁄4 lignes, 8.15 mm thick, 37 jewels, 28.800 alternations/hour, Incabloc anti-shock device, two barrels.
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, seconds reset, flyback chronograph, knots scale for calculation of average boat speed.
Case: Diameter 44 mm, brushed titanium. Bezel in polished titanium. Back in titanium with special engraving. Device protecting the crown (protected as trademark) in brushed titanium.
Dial: black with white luminous Arabic numerals and indexes. Chronograph hour counter at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minutes hands, knot scale on the rehaut.
Power Reserve: 72H.
Water-Resistance: 10 bar (~ 100 metres).
Strap: black rubber strap and trapezoidal brushed titanium buckle.
Panerai Luminor Yachts Challenge – 44mm PAM00788
Technical specifications:
Movement: Automatic mechanical, P.9100 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai. 13 3⁄4 lignes, 8.15 mm thick, 37 jewels, 28.800 alternations/hour, Incabloc anti-shock device, two barrels.
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, seconds reset, flyback chronograph, knots scale for calculation of average boat speed.
Case: Diameter 44 mm, black ceramic. Back in titanium with DLC coating and special engraving. Device protecting the crown (protected as trademark) in black ceramic.
Dial: black with white luminous Arabic numerals and indexes. Chronograph hour counter at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minutes hands, knot scale on the rehaut.
Power Reserve: 72H.
Water-Resistance: 10 Bar (~ 100 Metres).
Strap: black rubber strap and trapezoidal titanium buckle with DLC coating.
Panerai Luminor Yachts Challenge – 44mm PAM01020
Technical specifications:
Movement: Automatic mechanical, P.9100 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai. 13 3⁄4 lignes, 8.15 mm thick, 37 jewels, 28.800 alternations/hour, Incabloc anti-shock device, two barrels.
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, seconds reset, flyback chronograph, knots scale for calculation of average boat speed.
Case: Diameter 44 mm, brushed 5NPT gold. Bezel in polished 5NPT gold. See-through sapphire crystal with special metallization. Device protecting the crown (protected as trademark) in brushed 5NPT gold.
Dial: blue dial with satiné soleil finish and white luminous Arabic numerals and indexes. Chronograph hour counter at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minutes hands, knot scale on the rehaut.
Power Reserve: 72H.
Water-Resistance: 5 bar (~ 50 metres).
Strap: blue alligator strap with beige stitching. Trapezoidal buckle in brushed 5NPT gold.
The prices for the Panerai Luminor Yachts Challenge – 44mm are:
· EUR 12,900 (PAM00764)
· EUR 15,500 (PAM00788)
· EUR 27,500 (PAM001020)
