The Pam 36 is one of the legend Vendome watches, with some few others like the 40, the 21, the Pre A 1,2,4,9, and the Mare 6,7 and 8.
The Pam 36, the 1st Marina Militare after the legendary 5218- 202/A pre v, with its stunning PVD and its matching or non matchind indexes and numbers. And after the Marina Militare gorgeous Vintage watches.
This is the 1st Luminor Marina to get the name of Marina Militare by special authorization of the Marina Militare (MM) Italiana. Just Before the Pam 82 Amerigo Vescpucci, which is the name of one of the ship/school of the MM italiana, in 2000. Note that I never heard ( but I may be wrong) that the 3rd MM Vendome, the Pam 217, was made by special authorization of the MM.
The Pam 36 is the one and the only one to have:
A Titanium case ( Grade 2 ),
Combined to a Brown (tobacco) dial,
And tritium indexes (T swiss T).
The Brown chocolate dial is something amazing, subtile and beautiful…Depending on the ilght, the color change from an evident brown to a grey brown till a black dial. The combo with the creamy indexes is a gorgeous shown!
The Case Back lets show the movement, which is, as a lot of Panerai, a reliable and accurate ETA, which is the ost important for a tool watch like this one.
You will notice an interesting thing, on this movement…It's obvioulsy inspired from the Rolex Cortebert look, which is clever, and well done!
The packaging is complete, with a big LE box, the scrolls, the libretto.
Well, this Pam 36 is a real MM, like its legendary ancesters, or mother, the 202/A.
For reference:
This watch has an interesting story.
When Panerai Firenze was sold th Vendome, in March 1997, the Cartier Vendome group received some stuff from Panerai Firenze, and with the stuff, some projects, like the watches which belonged to the Project Slytech as the Black Seal Slytech.
So, Panerai Vendome had the idea to launch a watch which was conceived in the end of Paneria Firenze, a titanium watch: PAM036.
The Pam 36 is referenced as a LE from the Year 1998, have a look on the official website, or in the Limited Editions Catalogue, you always will see it presented in 1998, which is a mistake, as it gets a B production which is the evidence that the watch was launched in 1999, presented during the SIHH of the same year. Here comes again a mystery!
(Original Article: http://quicklook.watchprosite.com/show-nblog.post/ti-409776/)