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The Panerai Pam1074 was officially released in April 2021 and belongs to the Panerai Submersible series. The official annual limited edition is 1,000 pieces, exclusively sold in Panerai boutiques, with an official price of 121,500 yuan.
The newly launched VS Factory 1074 features a retro bronze case paired with a matte blue dial, showcasing the unique aesthetic of a bronzed watch after oxidation. As the owner wears it over time, the visual effect of the bronze’s oxidation will bring an additional sense of vintage charm.
The watch features a sapphire crystal mirror, which offers excellent transparency. Sapphire is highly resistant to scratches during long-term use, a unique advantage of this material. The matte blue tone of the dial complements the beige Super-LumiNova™ luminous coating on the baton and dot hour markers. The beige luminous coating illuminates the markers, while the green luminous effect is bright and eye-catching, ensuring easy time reading even in the deep sea. The dot hour markers, hollow hour and minute hands, and the small seconds dial at the 9 o’clock position reflect each other, showcasing the unique charm of Panerai dive watches. All are coated with a beige luminous display coating, harmonizing with the bronze case and exuding a simple and vintage nautical style. A date display window at the 3 o’clock position provides more convenient time information.
The side crown bridge polishing is also very good, the grinding direction of the shell is also the original, the degree of reduction is really very high, the bridge arc, the bridge lettering, the drawing of the bridge, and the original are not significantly different. At the same time, the texture on the side of the watch is also relatively strong, and the appearance looks relatively in place!
The back of the case is a transparent design, which is still a screw-in design, which also increases the waterproof strength of the watch, and the engraving on the back is also very clear, and the back is transparent, so that the wearer can appreciate the working state of the P.900 automatic mechanical movement of the VS factory. The stability and precision of the movement are very good, which is very low in the industry as a whole in terms of the current repair rate at Panerai.
The strap is in blue vintage suede with hazel stitching and a trapezoidal bronze buckle.
Overall, this VS Factory Panerai 1074 offers a solid reproduction in terms of materials and appearance. If you have a smaller wrist size and appreciate bronze watches, this VS Factory Panerai Pam1074 is highly recommended. However, the market situation has grown increasingly tight each year. Since VS Factory encountered issues the year before last, their deliveries have been not only slow but also inconsistent in timing. Nowadays, getting a VS Factory watch requires a great deal of patience—after all, the factory no longer ships daily as it once did, and many models require pre-ordering.
