Panerai Mare Nostrum came as a little surprise from Officine Panerai, half a century after it was designed in a Florence factory, as an officer’s deck watch.
Due to events in the Second World War, Mare Nostrum has never been produced for Italian Navy. However, this remarkable chronograph was proudly presented in 1993, as an sporty model from the limited edition, aimed at the civilian market, along with Luminor, and Luminor Marina.
Throughout 2010 unique edition of 99 timepieces, Officine Panerai offered, once again, a boldly designed Panerai Mare Nostrum, with chronograph function and a tachymeter.
Watch is powered by exclusive self-winding mechanical movement, which contains 22 jewels, and oscillates at frequency of 18,000 vibrations per hour, providing great power-reserve of 55 hours.
This very rare Panerai OP XXVIII Caliber is based on the vintage Minerva movements, produced in the 1940s, and thanks to the Incabloc® anti-shock device, is resistant to mechanical shocks.
Each Minerva movement has been carefully cleaned, re-oiled and adjusted to power Panerai Mare Nostrum.
Dynamism and masculinity
Watch has a slightly oversized 52mm case, made of stainless steel, which includes a personalized Mare Nostrum winding crown, and chronograph push pieces.
The chronograph operates through a central second’s hand, a small second’s counter, located at 9 o’clock, and a 30-minutes sub-dial, at 3 o’clock.
Highly legible black multi-leveled dial, with Arabic numeral and hour markers and luminous blued steel hands is fitted with a corundum sapphire crystal of 1.6 mm.
Robust look of Mare Nostrum and Panerai’s “extreme situations watch” reputation, this time could deceive. Definitely, with 30-meter water resistance, this isn’t diving watch.
On the other hand, its style, dynamism and masculinity make it amazing and desirable among the collectors. One of them is a Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, a great admirer of Panerai’s watches, who had requested a personalized re-edition of the Mare Nostrum, with its signature engraved on the back.
I checked out one of their historic and this Mare Nostrum fit perfectly. It is a great watch, not just in design, but also in function. Its like a miracle how Panerai can permanently craft new watches with such a quality. The workmanship of this watch is excellent. If you looking for a vintage design watches and if you are ready to pay a little more for a watch, I highly recommend it. Just look at this mechanism. It’s miracle. This watch is a pretty good investment. I just wonder is there any left.
This Panerai watch looks really different from all other Panerai watches on this site. Don`t get me wrong, I like this model a lot. My Casio isn`t so good and I want to change it. This watch is definitely on the top of my favorite list.
Let`s imagine for a second that this watch doesn`t have engraved name “Panerai” on its dial. How many of you would recognize that this is a Panerai watch?!
I think that tne number would be really low. Am I right?!
You are right, Donald. My girlfriend had that kind of problem, although with a Movado watch. This design is unusual for Panerai watches, but I must admit that it looks fantastic. I really need to have this watch, and I`ll do everything what is necessary to buy it as soon as possible.
This is maybe the most beautiful watch among all Panerai collections. Its green strap looks really fantastic. It’s almost incredible how it looks in a combination with a steel case and a great Panerai movement Caliber OP XXVIII.
This watch is really interesting. I must admit that I didn’t have the best opinion about Panerai watches. In fact, I didn’t like their designs. But this watch is really something special. It isn’t surprising that a famous movie star, Sylvester Stallone, chose this watch as one of his favorites.
I like this watch because it isn’t like all other Panerai watches. I have a Certina, and I’m very happy with it, but this watch is the main candidate for my new watch. It looks nice, it isn’t expensive and most of all, I really like it!