PANERAI - Radiomir 1940 PAM00512
SIHH 2013
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PAM00512 RADIOMIR 1940 - 42MM
IN ABOUT 1940, THE PANERAI WORKSHOPS IN FLORENCE PERFECTED A NEW CASE,
designed to meet the increasing demands of the commandos of the Italian
Navy. The case was a development of the one presented in
1936 which is
known today as the
Radiomir – a term which originally referred to the
luminous material patented by
Panerai to make the dial readable in the
dark – but it presented some innovations designed to make its
construction even more solid and hardwearing.
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In the new case the
strap attachments were no longer formed from a strong piece of steel
wire bent and welded to the caseband, as they had been previously. This
design might expose the watch to the risk of the strap coming off in the
course of the extreme operations which commandos were called upon to
undertake when on board their underwater assault craft.
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In the
1940s
version, on the other hand, the lugs were larger and much more solid,
being milled from the same block of steel as the case, of which they
were an integral part. As well as the strap attachments, the system of
attaching the strap was also changed, becoming much simpler and more
secure. While previously it had been necessary to sew the leather round
the wire strap attachments, the new construction had little holes in the
lugs themselves in which a small tubular bar could be fitted, having
been inserted through the loop of the strap.
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This was a more modern
solution, which also meant that the leather strap could be replaced
easily. As well as the modification to the strap attachments, other
changes altered the
Radiomir case in a definitive way, presaging the
subsequent development of the shape of the
Luminor case which came out a
few years later. The cushion-shaped outlines were now less accentuated.
The winding crown was slightly larger and cylindrical rather than
troncoidal. The overall thickness of the watch increased from about 15
mm to almost 17 mm.
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So was born the
Radiomir 1940 case which
Officine Panerai is presenting again today – with the same design but in
a thinner version – in new models of the collection, watches endowed
with the strength and fascination that only being a part of history can
convey. The
Radiomir 1940 in steel has a case 42 mm in diameter with the
P.999 hand-wound movement, the smallest and thinnest in the wide range
of calibres produced by the
Officine Panerai manufacture in Neuchâtel.
The
P.999 movement, visible through the sapphire crystal window set in
the back, has a power reserve of 60 hours and a balance which oscillates
at 21,600 vibrations/hour (equivalent to 3 Hz). The
Radiomir 1940 is
supplied with a black alligator strap, and it is part of the Historic
Collection.
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MOVEMENT
The P.999/1 is a mechanical movement combining reliability, robustness and
precision and featuring the special structure with wide separated
bridges that characterizes all the other Officine Panerai Manufacture
calibres.
With a 12 ligne diameter, equal to 27.4 mm, and a
thickness of 3.4 mm, the P.999 calibre is slightly smaller than the
other Officine Panerai calibres making it ideal for models which are
smaller, both in diameter and in thickness, than the historical watches.
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With
19 jewels, a single barrel providing a 60-hour power reserve and small
seconds at 9 o’clock, the calibre is made up of 154 components and beats
time at a frequency of 3 Hz: this means that its balance wheel makes
21,600 alternations/hour. Equipped with adjusting screws, the balance
wheel is protected by an Incabloc® anti-shock device while the
regulating system of the flat spiral is of swan’s neck type in the pink
and red gold version of the movement.
Functions
• Hours, minutes, small seconds
Technical Specifications
• Hand-wound mechanical movement
• 12 lignes
• 3.4 mm thick
• 19 jewels
• Glucydur® balance
• 21,600 alternations/hour
• Incabloc® anti-shock device
• Swan’s neck regulator
• Power reserve 60 hours
• 154 components
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Technical Specifications
MOVEMENT
Hand-wound mechanical,
Panerai P.999/1 calibre,
Executed entirely by Panerai, 12 lignes, 3 mm thick,
19 jewels,
Glucydur® balance, 21,600 alternations/hour.
Incabloc® anti-shock
device.
Power reserve 60 hours. 144 components.
FUNCTIONS
Hours, minutes, small seconds.
CASE
Diameter 42 mm, AISI 316L polished steel.
crew-down winding crown personalised OP.
BACK
See-through sapphire crystal
DIAL
Black with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers.
Seconds at 9 o’clock.
CRYSTAL
Sapphire, made of corundum, 1.6 mm thick.
Anti-reflective coating.
WATER-RESISTANCE
10 bar (~ 100 metres).
STRAP
PANERAI personalised alligator strap and trapezoidal polished steel buckle.
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