Panerai LA LUMINOR 1950 TITANIUM TOURBILLON GMT Mode D'emploi page 11

OFFICINE PANERAI
HISTORY
Since 1860, Guido Panerai & Figlio in Florence has been producing precision
instruments with a high level of technical content, becoming a supplier to the
Royal Italian Navy. These instruments have indissolubly associated the name
Panerai with marine exploration, time measurement and the development of a
particular standard of quality and safety, a fundamental requirement for
supplying the armed forces.
Officine Panerai began to produce watches in March 1938 with the Radiomir, a
model which played a part in the exploits of the commandos of the Italian Navy
who wore it on their wrists. The Panerai Luminor has been recognised as a
historically important watch by virtue of the robustness and originality of its
design; the small number of examples produced, together with the first Radiomir
watches, are some of the rarities most sought-after by collectors in the field.
Since 1993, Officine Panerai has offered updated Luminor and Radiomir
models on the international market, thus becoming one of the undisputed leaders
in the haute horlogerie sports sector.
Making good use of the resources of the Panerai manufacture, highly reliable,
technologically avant-garde watches are being created; these are watches
made to the criteria of craftsmanship inherited from the traditions of the past,
tested to resist extremely strong adverse influences.
Panerai watches are distributed through a highly selective international network
of watch specialists as well as through the Panerai boutiques. The addresses are
available on our website www.panerai.com.
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THE PANERAI LUMINOR 1950 TITANIUM
TOURBILLON GMT WATCH
The Panerai Luminor 1950 Titanium Tourbillon GMT watch is equipped with
the Panerai P.2005 manufacture calibre. This movement has a tourbillon
escapement, the greatest technical expression of mechanical horology: a
complication notable for the difficulty of its construction.
The special feature of the regulating organ developed by Panerai lies in the
fact that the Tourbillon cage rotates on an axis at right angles to the axis of the
balance wheel and that it makes two rotations per minute: this rotation,
ensures greater accuracy, providing the best compensation for the irregular
rate caused by the effect of the force of gravity. The fascinating motion of the
tourbillon (G) can be admired from the back of the watch, while on the dial side
there is a little circular indicator (D), within the seconds counter at 9 o'clock,
which travels twice as quickly as the seconds hand because it moves at the
speed of the tourbillon cage.
(G)
TOURBILLON MOTION
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