Panerai Radiomir SLC 3 Days PAM 425 Luxury Watch Review

Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content. http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/panerai Once again, Panerai goes to its well of history and draws a motherlode of vintage style. The PAM 425 pays tribute to the Panerai combat dive watches of the late 1930s and early 40s while referencing the WWII combat record of these watches in the hands of Italy's Decima Flottiglia MAS commandos. After modifying and issuing its first run of Rolex-built combat divers from 1936-1938, Panerai began to exert more direct control on the design process for the second iteration of the famous Panerai 3646. The key distinction, featured here in the PAM 425, is the "baton" dial that exchanged the civilian-issue "California" dial of the first 3646 for a larger, less complicated, more visible "sandwich" design for combat use. This revision greatly enhanced legibility under demanding mission conditions. Above the baton index at 6 o'clock a small raised outline of the famous Siluro a Lenta Corsa: the Decima MAS' manned torpedo attack craft. While the Italian Navy's performance in WWII was compromised by its half-hearted dedication to the Axis cause, individual courage was exemplary. In December 1941, Decima combat swimmers using the S.L.C. took out three Royal Navy warships - including two battleships. All Italian Navy personnel were equipped with Panerai watches closely resembling the PAM 425. Today's Radiomir S.L.C. 3 Days combines the effortless cool factor of vintage