Panerai’s autumn rollout of new timepieces not seen at January’s SIHH watch salon (click here for our coverage of the new Radiomir 1940 editions) continues with the release of three new variations on the brand’s Luminor 8 Days model, two with newly designed power-reserve-indicator dials, the other the first in the series with a case designed for left-handed wearers.
Panerai Luminor 8 Days Power Reserve 8 Days (PAM00795)
Powered by the hand-wound P.5002 caliber, developed and manufactured in-house by Panerai at its manufacture in Neuchatel, Switzerland, the new Luminor 8 Days Power Reserve Acciaio (Ref. PAM00795) is housed in a 44-mm-diameter case made of 316L stainless steel (acciaio in Italian, the language of Panerai’s historical home of Florence) and features the multilayered “sandwich” dial that has become a brand hallmark, here in black with beige-tinted Super-LumiNova in the hands and Arabic numerals. As on previous models, the small seconds counter appears at 9 o’clock. What’s new about this timepiece is the power-reserve indicator placed unconventionally at 5 o’clock, with an arrow-tipped hand displaying the state of the movement’s 192-hour power reserve on a 0-to-8 scale representing the eight full days of running autonomy. (Previous versions have displayed the power reserve on a linear indicator above 6 o’clock.) The watch comes on a brown leather strap with beige stitching that echoes the look of t...