Borrowed Time: Panerai Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech – 47MM
The Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech is at the technical vanguard of Panerai?s re-branded Submersible collection. We found this rugged timepiece, engineered for combat diving, makes a sharp statement on dry land as well.
Panerai Submersible Marina Militare Carbotech – 47MM
Many Paneristi, especially those who also count themselves among the ranks of diving enthusiasts, likely applauded the company?s recent decision to spin off its Submersible series ? traditionally a sub-brand of the Luminor family ? into a more independent, stand-alone collection within the Panerai portfolio. As I had the opportunity to tell then-newly minted Panerai North America Brand President Philippe Bonay, during a brief encounter at the Geneva Airport, both of us exhaustedly awaiting a flight home after SIHH 2019, I believe it allows the brand to tell a new story that it frankly, and somewhat oddly, had not been telling much in its modern incarnation. Quite simply, while Panerai?s roots are firmly planted in military diving ? going all the way back to the 1930s and the first watches the Florentine firm provided for Italian naval frogmen ? it had been quite a while since Panerai timepieces had really been regarded as ?dive watches? in the way that, say, the Rolex Submariner or Blancpain Fifty Fathoms or Omega Seamaster are. Part of the reason for this was Panerai?s vaulting to its current identity as a masculine luxury item rather than a tool watch (thank you, Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwa...
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