Panerai PAM346 Radiomir 8 Days
I'm sure that many die hard Panerai followers will question the fact that the watch has a cyclops above the date window - most likely one of the reasons for the PAM268 not being that popular within this group. As much as I love the so called base watches (no sub seconds, no date) - I like watches with a date function too. And imo the so called cyclops actually looks good on some watches, definitely on this new 346.
Radiomir 8 Days case back
The PAM346 is powered by Panerai's in-house P.2002/9 Calibre. The base of this hand-wound movement is the same as the movement that is used in e.g. the PAM233 and PAM268. But this version has been changed to accommodate a power reserve indicator on the back of the watch - as opposed to the horizontal power reserve indicator (aka the fang) on the dial of the 233 and 268. You can see the indicator in the above photo.
Panerai PAM346 Radiomir 8 Days
Panerai previously sold its watches under the categories historic, contemporary and manifattura. The latter was used to group the watches with the in-house movements built by Panerai. Things have changed a bit this year and so the PAM346 is part of the historic line, where it previously would have been part of the Manifattura line because of its in-house movement. All Panerai watches with a hand-wound mechanical movement - in-house or sourced from other parties - are now called historic. The reasoning behind this change over isn't clear to me but I'm sure it will make sense one day.
All photos © M.Wilmsen 2010 - taken at the SIHH in Geneva. More photos on paneristipix.com - PAM346.
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