Panerai has traditionally been one of the most straightforward watch brands when it comes to color options: the ones most commonly spotted in the wild sport the same matte black dials and large white numerals that were used on the brand’s WWII-era models for the Royal Italian Navy. In recent years, however, the Florentine watchmaker has not been immune to the growing color trends, adding blue, brown, and even green dials to its repertoire. This year, Panerai grows its selection of timepieces with military green dials, following up on the trio introduced in 2017, with a quartet of new models from its Radiomir family.
Panerai Radiomir GMT – 45MM
Three of the watches use a 45-mm version of the classic cushion-shaped Radiomir case in AISI 316L stainless steel ? a modern iteration of the case Panerai developed in the 1940s for use on underwater missions by Italian Naval frogmen. The green dial of the Panerai Radiomir – 45MM (Ref. PAM00995, $11,200), in the brand’s multilayered “sandwich” construction, hosts a small seconds subdial at 9 o’clock and beige Super-LumiNova on the numerals and hands. Inside its case, behind a sapphire caseback window, is the self-winding P.4000 caliber, the thinnest movement made by Panerai, which is powered by a bidirectional micro-rotor made of tungsten alloy and stores a three-day power reserve in its two barrels. The watch is mounted on a dark brown “Ponte Vecchio” calf leather strap with contr...