Like Chocolate for Water: Panerai Submersible Bronzo Resurfaces with New Brown Ceramic Bezel
On the heels of its big announcement at SIHH 2019 ? that the Luminor Submersible sub-family will be re-branded and refocused as its own stand-alone collection, called simply Submersible ? Officine Panerai re-introduces its first bronze-cased watch within that family, the Submersible Bronzo, retaining the 47-mm, cushion-shaped bronze case and adding a new brown dial and brown bezel insert made of ceramic.
Panerai Submersible Bronzo (Ref. PAM00968)
The Panerai Submersible Bronzo – 47mm (Reference PAM00968 in its newest incarnation) follows up the original Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Automatic Bronzo model (PAM00382). launched in 2011, and its slightly more complicated, and even longer-named, successor, 2015’s Luminor Submersible 1950 3 Days Power Reserve Automatic Bronzo (PAM00507). The Submersible series itself is a modern descendant of the so-called L’Egiziano, a rare and legendary timepiece that Panerai made for Egyptian naval officers in the 1950s, back when the brand was based in Florence and producing timekeeping equipment solely for military clients rather than for retail consumers. A brown ceramic insert has been added to the original Bronzo’s bronze rotating bezel.
Like its modern predecessors, the new Submersible Bronzo’s case is constructed from the bronze alloy CuSn8, which blends copper and tin in their pure states, which is both structurally strong and highly corrosion-resistant. Bronze, historically associated with ships, divin...
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