Panerai Partners With Free Diving Champ Guillaume Néry to Launch New Submersible Collection

Despite offering a list of PAM-numbered references that could fill a phonebook, Panerai has long been defined by just two major families: the Radiomir and Luminor, with the rugged, dive-ready Submersible models mostly regarded as offshoots of the Luminor 1950 In building out the new collection, Panerai has used the Submersible to showcase some of its innovative new high-tech materials and to highlight its latest partnership with an icon of the extreme sports world "Headlining the new collection, unveiled this week at SIHH 2018, is the Submersible Chrono Guillaume Néry Edition 47MM, a timepiece celebrating Panerai"s new collaboration with Guillaume Néry, the French free diving champion who broke four world records and is now known worldwide for his stunning underwater photography and videos.

The case, water-resistant to a professional-level 300 meters, is made of titanium, with a unidirectional rotating dive-scale bezel made of blue ceramic Another shade of blue makes an appearance on the central chronograph seconds hand and on the hands of the two parallel subdials an hour counter at 3 o'clock and running seconds at 9 o'clock Panerai is also offering another edition of the Submersible Chrono Guillaume Néry, in a 47-mm DLC-coated titanium case with a blue-to-black gradient dial, strictly limited to 15 pieces.

Stay tuned to WatchTime.com to discover more highlight pieces from the new Submersible collection as we continue to cover new SIHH releases in the coming days and weeks. . Source