Panerai Luminor 1950 Rattrapante 8 Days Titanio Handbuch Seite 12

HISTORY
Since 1860, Guido Panerai & Figlio in Florence had been producing precision
instruments with a high level of technical content, becoming a supplier to the
Royal Italian Navy. These instruments have indissolubly associated the name
Panerai with marine exploration, time measurement and the development of a
particular standard of quality and safety, a fundamental requirement for
supplying the armed forces.
Officine Panerai began producing watches in March 1938 with the Radiomir, a
model which played a part in the exploits of the commandos of the Italian
Navy who wore it on their wrists.
The Panerai Luminor has been recognised as a historically important watch by
virtue of the robustness and originality of its design; the small number of
examples produced, together with the first Radiomir watches, are some of the
rarities most sought-after by collectors in the field.
Since 1993, Officine Panerai has offered updated Luminor and Radiomir
models on the international market, thus becoming one of the undisputed
leaders in the haute horlogerie sports sector.
Making excellent use of the resources of the Panerai Manufacture, highly
reliable, technologically avant-garde watches are being created; these are
watches meeting the criteria of craftsmanship inherited from the traditions of
the past, tested to resist extremely strong adverse influences.
Panerai watches are distributed through a highly selective international
network of watch specialists as well as through the Panerai boutiques. The
addresses are available on our website www.panerai.com.
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THE PANERAI LUMINOR 1950
RATTRAPANTE 8 DAYS TITANIO -
TRANSAT CLASSIQUE 2012 WATCH
The Panerai Luminor 1950 Rattrapante 8 Days Titanio - Transat Classique
2012 watch is a special edition of 199 pieces dedicated to the Panerai Transat
Classique 2012, a regatta that will see a fleet of dozens of stunning classic
sailing yachts racing their way across the Atlantic Ocean. The watch is fitted
with the P.2006/3 calibre, a slipt-seconds chronograph entirely designed and
manufactured by Officine Panerai in its own Manufacture in Neuchâtel. It is an
extremely unusual rattrapante model, in which the technical ingenuity of the
movement itself enables all the functions to be controlled by just two push
pieces, rather than the usual three, and it has a power reserve of 8 days.
The split-seconds chronograph is one of the most fascinating mechanical
specialities in the field of time measurement. It has two overlapping hands,
one of which may be repeatedly stopped and then realigned with the other,
without interfering with the continuous operation of the latter. It can, for
example, be used to measure two events starting at the same time, or to
calculate the times of an athlete or vehicle lap by lap, without halting the
overall timing. It is a hand-wound movement which, through its three spring
barrels, can work uninterruptedly for 8 days before having to be wound again.
With a diameter of 13¾ lignes and more than 350 components, the
chronograph function of the P.2006/3 has a vertical clutch to avoid any
imprecision at the start of a measurement and a double column wheel
guaranteeing, among other benefits, perfect sequencing of the start, stop,
split-second, realignment and zero setting phases of the chronograph hands.
To facilitate even more perfect synchronisation, the small seconds hand
automatically positions itself at zero when the crown is pulled out to set the
time.
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