Panerai Radiomir S.L.C. 3 Days PAM 449 Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com Any watch named after the lethal Italian Navy "Siluro a Lenta Corsa" manned torpedo had better be a seriously heavy hitter. The Panerai Radiomir S.L.C 3 Days PAM 449 - one of only 750 manufactured - delivers. At the onset of World War II, Officine Panerai's combat dive watches, like the Italian pioneering special forces that employed them, were entering their second generation with the benefit of lessons learned during early trials. Previous "California" half Roman/ half Arabic dials were visible but remained too busy for no-nonsense combat gear. Panerai responded by issuing a watch in the image of the PAM 449 seen here. The second-generation "3646," as the early Panerai combat watches were known in naval terms, were pared down the the bare minimum; dot and baton indexes. These were the watches that went to war, and these were the Panerai on the wrists of the men who fought battleships barehanded at Alexandria in December 1941. War stories aside, Parent's modern tribute to that WWII veteran comes in the form of the Radiomir S.L.C. 3 Days PAM 449. It takes the key features that defined the look and functional elegance of the original, but it adds luxury refinements befitting Panerai's modern status as a watchmaker of reference. The tribute begins with an acrylic crystal. Rendered in the same plexiglas compound as the original, the PAM 449's "plexi" also creates the same endearing distortion around its periphery that endears vintage watches to co