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Panerai Luminor 1950 Chrono Monopulsante Left-Handed 8 Days Titanio (PAM 345)Besides the Panerai Luminor 1950 Destro 8 Days Titanio Special Edition PAM 368 model that was presented at SIHH 2011, the Italian watchmaker has also unveiled at the same event an even more complicated Panerai Luminor 1950 Chrono Monopulsante Left-Handed 8 Days Titanio (PAM 345) hand-wound watch.As the name implies, the new timekeeper was presented in a case crafted of brushed titanium. However, unlike the gargantuan PAM 368 model, this watch features a relatively compact body only 44 millimeters wide.The PAM 345 is powered by the manufacture-made P.2004/9 movement that offers a flyback chronograph functionality and is almost identical to the P.2004 caliber that powers the PAM 344 watch unveiled at the same time last year.The only difference between the two is that the power reserve indicator has been moved from the dial to the rear side of the watch.Judging by the layout of the dial and positioning of the single chronograph pusher, Panerai’s engineers didn’t spend too much time adapting the mechanism for a left-handed version of the watch. They simply turned it 180 degrees clockwise.Probably, that was the reason behind the removal of the power reserve indicator from the face: they wanted the “Luminor Panerai” inscription to stay at its usual place at 12 o’clock.Well, this looks is a nice chronograph watch for the right-handed people, but the price will probably be very high.

Ahead of SIHH 2011 Panerai has unveiled its Luminor Marina 1950 3 Days Automatic Composite �C 44mm.Powered by the automatic Panerai P.9000 movement, the Luminor 1950 case is made from Panerai Composite? – a synthetic ceramic pioneered by Officine Panerai. A first in the watch*** industry, it is created through an electro-chemical process which transforms aluminium into the distinctive matt material. It is much lighter than ceramic but harder and more resistant than steel.The P.9000 automatic movement can be seen through the smoked sapphire crystal case back and was designed and constructed in the Officine Panerai manufacture in Neuchatel. The caliber boasts a date function, small seconds at 9 o'clock and a power reserve that lasts three days.Water-resistant to 30 atmospheres (about 300 metres) it comes with a strap of antiqued brown leather with a composite buckle of the same colour.