Panerai Luminor Marina Titanio PAM 061 Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/panerai The Panerai Luminor Marina Titanio PAM 061 is a 44mm brushed titanium fan-favorite that combines iconic Panerai Luminor appeal with scintillating – and exclusive – details. An extraordinary tobacco dial pairs with lightweight brushed titanium to create a rare modern classic that looks stunning and wears like a feather on the wrist. The Luminor Marina Titanio is a beauty by any measure. The combination of brushed titanium framing a tobacco dial with an alligator strap and a contrasting stitch is deadly in person. It's also rare. Built for only two years, the Panerai PAM 061 exists in only 7,500 copies. For reference, today’s Officine Panerai builds almost ten times that figure annually. Prior to the Y2K debut of the Panerai Luminor Marina Titanio PAM 061, only the legendary Luminor Marina PAM 36 had been graced by this color combo. To this day, with over 350 distinct Panerai model variations in the company's cumulative catalog, only about a dozen have sports the Ti/tobacco tandem, and not all of those are the iconic Luminor model. And the Panerai Luminor is the modern definition of an iconic watch. Having hit the civilian market in 1993, the Luminor exploded to international acclaim via unpaid celebrity endorsements (thanks, Sly), online forum fanaticism (thanks, Guy), and a global fan following that spawned an entire luxury watch subculture: the Paneristi. As with all pre-2007 Panerai Luminor models, the straps are secured by