Officine Panerai presents the Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback, a new chronograph with a flyback function and an automatic movement with a power reserve of three days. Available in a purely sports version in steel or as a more elegant one in red gold, the new chronograph is the first to be made by Officine Panerai using the new P.9100 calibre.
The flyback function, controlled by a push-button at eight o’clock, instantly returns the chronograph hands to zero and simultaneously restarts without it being necessary first to stop them and return them to zero by pressing the stop and reset buttons.
To make the times clear and easy to read, the chronograph minutes and seconds hands are both positioned centrally on the main dial and distinguished from each other by being different colours: the seconds hand is blue while the minute hand is steel or gold in colour, advancing instantly in one jump every 60 seconds.
This choice of colours makes it possible to preserve the quintessential design for the black dial, with simple bar hour markers and numerals at the cardinal points, a date window at three o’clock and a small seconds dial at nine o’clock.
The structure of the dial is that designed by Panerai in the late 1930s to ensure high visibility even in very low lighting conditions, and it is formed of two superimposed plates, the upper one being perforated corresponding to the markers on the dial so that the luminescence of the Super-LumiNova® can emerge.
The case of the new Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback is 44mm in diameter and water-resistant to 10 bar (about 100 metres), or 5 bar (about 50 metres) in the gold version.
The materials used are of absolute excellence: the steel is AISI 316L stainless steel, extremely resistant to corrosion, and the red gold is 5Npt, an alloy with a high percentage of copper, which gives the colouring greater intensity, and a proportion of platinum, which helps to prevent any oxidation.
Executed in the same case material and with a brushed finish, the characteristic bridge device with its lever for sealing the winding crown helps to ensure the high degree of water-resistance of the watch.
On the back of the case, the 12-sided caseback has at its centre a sapphire window which reveals the self-winding P.9100 movement.
It has a vertical clutch, a column wheel, two spring barrels connected in series which give the watch a power reserve of three days, a rotor which winds the springs of the barrels by moving in both directions, and a variable inertia balance which oscillates at 28,800 alternations/hour. Consisting of 302 components, the movement is 13¾ lignes in diameter and 8.15 mm thick.
The Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback (PAM00524) and the Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback Oro Rosso (PAM00525) are part of the Contemporary Collection.
The steel model is supplied with a black leather strap and the red gold one with a brown alligator strap. The straps are easily changed by means of the button fitted in the lug of the watch, which is operated by the special tool provided.
Technical details
Model: Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback 44mm Reference PAM00524
Movement
Automatic mechanical, Panerai P.9100 calibre, 13¾ lignes, 8.15 mm thick, 37 jewels, Glucydur® balance, 28,800 alternations/hour
KIF Parechoc® anti-shock device
Power reserve 3 days, two barrels
302 components
Functions
Hours, minutes, small seconds date, flyback chronograph, seconds reset
Case
Diameter 44 mm, AISI 316L brushed steel. Brushed steel buttons with engraving for the chronograph functions at 8 and 10 o’clock.
Bezel: Polished steel.
Back: See-through sapphire crystal.
Device protecting the crown: (protected as trademark) Brushed steel.
Crystal: Sapphire made of corundum, 1.8 mm thick. Anti-reflective coating
Water-resistance: 10 bar (~ 100 metres)
Dial
Black with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers
Date at 3 o’clock, seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minutes hands
Strap
PANERAI personalized leather strap and trapezoidal brushed steel buckle
Supplied with a second interchangeable strap, a tool for changing the strap and a steel screwdriver
Model: Panerai Luminor 1950 3 Days Chrono Flyback ORO ROSSO 44mm Reference PAM00525
Movement
Automatic mechanical, Panerai P.9100 calibre, 13¾ lignes, 8.15 mm thick, 37 jewels, Glucydur® balance, 28,800 alternations/hour
KIF Parechoc® anti-shock device
Power reserve 3 days, two barrels
302 components
Functions
Hours, minutes, small seconds, date, flyback chronograph, seconds reset
Case
Diameter 44 mm, 18 ct. polished red gold
Polished red gold buttons with engraving for the chronograph functions at 10 o’clock and 8 o’clock
Bezel: 18 ct. polished red gold.
Back: See-through sapphire crystal.
Device protecting the crown: (protected as a trademark) 18 ct. brushed red gold
Crystal: Sapphire made of corundum, 1.4 mm thick. Anti-reflective coating
Water-resistance: 5 bar (~ 50 metres)
Dial
Black with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers
Date at 3 o’clock, seconds at 9 o’clock, central chronograph seconds and minutes hands
Strap
PANERAI personalised alligator strap and 18 ct. polished red gold buckle
Supplied with a second interchangeable strap and a steel screwdriver
