Engraved case back---Vintage Panerai Rolex Radiomir

On December eighth 2014, the French ah Artcurial will host a very interesting purchase, focused only on individuals special dive watches: ‘Panerai Only’, the most impressive auction ever for Panerai watches, with pieces all the eras: 68 lots from the history of the Officine, from diving toolsto very rare vintage watches or modern but important models. Paneristi all across the globe will feel the official catalog having a huge interest. We, at Monochrome-Watches, had the opportunity to handle some of the vintage Panerai Rolex watches soon sold.

Lately, we already introduce you some of the popular features of this auction, including an very rare Egyptian Radiomir ‘Egiziano‘ 8 days or perhaps a Marina Militare ref. 6152-1. Thing about this auction will also be some modern but rare limited models, like a Panerai Luminor 1950 8 days PAM 203 or perhaps a Panerai Radiomir PAM 021. Without a doubt, they are superb Panerais however the primary attraction would be the vintage models. Three watches especially caught our attention, 3 vintage Panerai Rolex Ref. 3646 but 3 different models.

Lot 5 is really a vintage Radiomir ref. 3646 from 1943. The Radiomir may be the first watch created and shipped through the Officine Panerai - the first is really a unique 1936 prototype Ref. 2533 showing the S.L.C. dial - and shipped from 1938, in roughly 600 pieces. The main one we've this is a nude edition: simple sandwich dial with 3-6-9-12 indexes, blued luminous hands and that’s all. 

No brand, no useless features, no complication. Her typical 46mm cushion-formed case with welded attachment loops. Inside ticks has a by hand-wound Rolex movement (Calibre 618 Cortébert). Not just Rolex provided movements they also manufactured these watches shipped to the Italian and German Navy.

You are able to clearly observe how simple these watches were when getting rid of the screwed case back. It had been fundamental tool-watches designed to resist towards the tough existence of the military diver. That one has two specificities. First, it arrives with an unusual yellow patina, because of a coloration of the tropic that produces a distinctive watch. Another improvements originates from the engraving around the case back. 

This watch, like the majority of the others created, saw fight fields coupled with been employed for what it absolutely was produced: war. The case back here refers back to the owner, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, a German naval officer and submarine commander throughout The Second World War. “He was sixth one of the top Bullets of the Deep throughout the Second Fight of the Atlantic from the Allies, when it comes to tonnage of merchant ships sunk. 

He commanded four U-motorboats, and the noticably and effective tour was commanding the U-96.” Throughout his career, he sank 24 ships. The smiling sawfish, personal emblem of both Willenbrock and also the U-96, are available on the rear of this watch. This watch, engraved ‘Rolex’ and ‘260621’ within the case back, shows up here and believed to € 50,000 - € 80,000.

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