In 2006, a year after Panerai promoted its own movement, the brand president, the project director of its own movement, and several of our watch media people from all over the world gathered in the Tuscan Valley to eat and chat. I don't know who brought up the topic of diving watches and compared Panerai with the Rolex Submariner. The president immediately interrupted the conversation: "Panerai is a purely nautical brand, and only makes nautical watches..." He emphasized the marine watch, which means that all Panerai originates from nautical-related fields or themes , is an expert in sailing. No one knows sailing better than Panerai. You must know that marine watches are not only diving watches. If you only talk about diving watches, "We have Submersible, that is the omnipotent diving watch!"
That year, Panerai launched the Submersible PAM193 with a depth gauge, and I heard the name METAS for the first time from this watch. Panerai Submersible was inspired by the professional diving watch L specially made for the Egyptian Navy in 1956, Egiziano "The Great Egyptian", and the first batch of Submersible PAM024 and PAM025 in 1998 set a waterproof requirement of 300 meters.
The brand has always emphasized that every piece of Panerai is not only a marine watch, but also a marine combat watch - that's how Panerai came. In order to demonstrate the real practicality of the watch underwater, he took us all the way west through Lucca to the Mediterranean Sea, and let the divers and photographers go to the sea to test it. As he said, the 30-meter underwater dial showed Almost nothing can be seen.
A diving watch born from a brand whose every watch is a nautical combat watch is like a watcher standing on the shoulders of giants. Compared with peers or similar products, it is the starting point of the industry and the actual voice of the profession. It's not a market trend, not even the depth of diving.
Even if the words have come to this point, the professionalism, reliability and stability of diving watches are still the last word. Therefore, Panerai has always taken the lead in applying cutting-edge technology, materials and concepts to Submersible. The titanium PAM025 in 1998, the PAM193 with a depth gauge in 2006, and the PAM382 with a bronze case in 2011 are also my first pieces. Submersible. The next 2013 is a big year for Submersible: PAM364 with a water-resistant titanium case of 2,500 meters, full-ceramic PAM508, and second-generation bronze PAM507 all debuted, playing an important role in the surging global diving watch boom.
In 2019, Jean-Marc Pontroué, the new president of Panerai, decided to separate Submersible as a series - the stealth series. Since then, the Submersible sneaker series has been dominated by the traditional 47mm "large" and the newly added 42mm "small" model, and the 44mm is limited to special models (eLAB-ID™ concept watch) and red gold carbon fiber watches (Goldtech ™ OroCarbo).
