The Special Edition---Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM 127

What's possibly most surprising is the fact that regardless of the brand’s relatively short history a lot of its watches have previously accomplished cult status among enthusiasts. This really is partially attributable that the company adopted the process in early stages of delivering a couple of ‘Special Edition’ pieces every year that will have limited production runs, thus growing their desirability one of the devoted. One particular example may be the Panerai Luminor 1950 PAM 127, more generally known among fanatics because the “Fiddy”.

Revealed in 2002 in the Salon Worldwide de la Haute Horlogerie, the special edition PAM 127 would be a hit with paneristi from the beginning, the different online forums illuminating with praise from around the globe for that new, nostalgia-inducing timekeeper. Tracing its lineage completely to a Panerai watch design from 1950 - therefore, the title - the PAM 127 brings together everything Panerai has been known and loved for namely extra-large cases, clean dials along with a certain stylish yet rugged aesthetic.

Oddly enough though, the half-moon crown guard mechanism developed along with Rolex that is now symbolic of the Luminor case really first made its appearance on the Radiomir case in around 1946, even though it appears it didn’t become standard problem before the introduction of the Luminor case in 1950. 

The reasoning for that crown guard was quite simple based on the aforementioned article on Jake’s Rolex World, all of the Rolex made Panerai watches were by hand wound and therefore the waterproof crown gasket would put on out rapidly with time. An answer was needed and thus together the two companies emerged with this particular design enhancement, which most probably was very efficient as it's been incorporated in each and every Luminor case since.

All this is extremely fascinating regarding call the PAM 127 a ‘grail watch’ it's unquestionably a really awesome watch and something that stays most evident towards the heritage it is supposed to honor. Put one other way, this watch pretty much exudes the company DNA which has cultivated this type of passionate following clean lines, masculine design not to mention in-your-face, impossible-to-ignore size (all 47mm from it). Actually pieces such as this are why a lot of people credit Panerai with really starting off the ‘over-sized’ watch trend, which is now so mainstream it can’t be also known to like a trend any longer.

Not everybody thinks, obviously “they’re so plain searching though” may be the comment I hear most frequently from my non-watch nerd buddies when speaking about Panerai watches generally but there's just something about this sandwich dial, the exaggerated curve of the sapphire crystal, the ever practical security lever lock around the crown, it’s so practical but so stylish all simultaneously. Just like a good Italian suit this can be a watch which was designed to be worn also to cause you to looks good simultaneously. It may sound silly however when you strap the PAM 127 you just feel cooler.

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