All black Automatic Ceramica---Panerai Tuttonero Luminor 1950 3 Days GMT

“Tuttonero” is Italian for “all black,” therefore it made the right nickname with this new model from Panerai, a brand name having a strong Florentine heritage. The entire title, according to usual with Panerai, is really a mouthful: Tuttonero Luminor 1950 three days GMT Automatic Ceramica - 44 mm. Its Paneristi-friendly reference number is PAM00438.

The watch, introduced in the month of January in the SIHH watch fair in Geneva, includes a case and bracelet made entirely of matte black ceramic. Its Luminor 1950 case is 44 mm across and it has the brand’s trademark crown protector. 

The dial is of Panerai’s well-known “sandwich” construction, with ecru-colored Super-LumiNova around the numbers and hands (such as the tip of the center-mounted GMT hand) for night time visibility. The small seconds hand and markers, inside a sub-dial at 9 o’clock, and also the date, inside a window at 3 o’clock, will also be given the luminous material.

Matte black ceramic case, diameter = 44 mm, 2.3-mm-thick sapphire crystal with non-reflective coating, exhibition case back, crown protector in black ceramic, water-resistant against 100 meters bracelet in black ceramic, steel buckle with hard black coating 
The bracelet’s links are built in the same ceramic, and utilizing the same process, because the case, and are affixed to a PVD-covered, brushed steel buckle that effortlessly blends in to the all-black theme. Each link is curved and asymmetrical, which gives the bracelet a gentle, comfortable feel around the wrist.

The ceramic Panerai ways to use the Tuttonero is really a synthetic material according to zirconium oxide powder, which acquires a really uniform appearance along with a high amount of hardness - about five occasions more than those of stainless steel - via a complex finishing process. The ceramic can also be uncommonly resistant against scratches, corrosion and temps.

Within the dusky case is Panerai’s P.9001 caliber, developed and built in the brand’s manufacture in Neuchatel, Europe. It's an automatic movement with (as implied within the model title) a 3-day power reserve along with a seconds-totally reset function. 

In conjuction with the watch’s all-black aesthetic, the movement, that is visible via a dark-tinted sapphire crystal within the case back, went via a blackening process allow it exactly the same sleek, matte-black look because the case. The title “Tuttonero” is engraved around the case back. The watch, that is limited to 500 pieces, has a U.S. retail cost of $16,300.