Panerai Radiomir Titanium PAM 322 Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com The Panerai Radiomir Titanium PAM 322 is like a horology Hall of Fame for your wrist. Take the original specwar/tactical forces watch and add a movement from Minerva, one of the top micro-manufactures in Switzerland, and the result is a very special Panerai limited edition of 150 watches. Minerva is the greatest watchmaker most people have never heard of. A practitioner of nearly dead arts including manual hairspring manufacture and movement polish with indigenous flora (e.g., grass stems and young branches), Minerva isn't so much a watch factory as a living time capsule of old Swiss savoir faire. And Panerai's Radiomir Titanium PAM 322 puts the best of old-school Minerva on display through a sprawling sapphire case back. Within the Radiomir Titanium PAM 322, Minerva's traditional architecture reads like the blueprint of a nineteenth century railroad chronometer; simply reveling in the elegant simplicity of this movement is like taking an introductory course in watchmaking; the progression of power from winding crown to barrel to train to beating escapement is crystal clear. As for the finish, well... examining that is more like taking a master class. The movements from Villeret feature exquisite finish to rival the best of Geneva and Saxony. Panerai's caliber OP XXVII (Minerva 16-17) in the PAM 322 is resplendent with a black polished swan's neck regulator and screw heads, gorgeous Geneva stripes, radiant dressage graining on the rhodium-plat