Panerai · Family: Radiomir 1940
The Panerai Radiomir 1940 3 Days Automatic Acciaio (ref. PAM00655) is a 42mm watch in polished AISI 316L steel, with a white dial featuring large Arabic numerals and a small seconds sub-dial at 9 o'clock — the first Radiomir 1940 model with a white dial. It runs the in-house Caliber P.4000, automatic, with a twin-barrel architecture and a 3-day (72-hour) power reserve. Cazador has no verified price observations yet for this reference. Its differential: it's a limited edition of 1,000 pieces, introduced ahead of SIHH 2016.
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The Radiomir 1940 collection revives the design of the military dive watches Panerai built for the Italian Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s, with the characteristic cushion case whose welded lugs are integrated into the case body, without the screwed-lug system that distinguishes the Luminor line. The name 'Radiomir' comes from the radium-based radioluminescent material Panerai patented and used on the indexes of those original watches.
This reference, PAM00655, was introduced ahead of the SIHH 2016 show as the first Radiomir 1940 execution to carry a white dial, an unusual choice within a Panerai catalog traditionally dominated by black dials. The large Arabic numerals and the small seconds sub-dial at 9 o'clock, with its characteristic blue hand seen on some of the brand's executions, keep the visual vocabulary inherited from the 1940s military watches.
Beneath the dial sits the in-house Caliber P.4000, manufactured entirely at Panerai's Neuchâtel facility, with an off-center tungsten rotor that reduces the movement's thickness compared with a conventional central rotor. The twin-barrel-in-series system delivers a full 3-day (72-hour) power reserve, well above what a conventional single-barrel automatic offers.
With a 42mm polished AISI 316L steel case measuring 10.93mm thick, 10 bar of water resistance (roughly 100 meters), and an untreated natural leather strap with contrast stitching, this execution is positioned as a rugged dress piece rather than a dive tool, despite inheriting Panerai's original military case architecture. It's a limited edition of 1,000 pieces, no longer part of the brand's current active catalog.
This is the seventh Panerai reference Cazador adds, alongside the Luminor Marina, Radiomir Black Seal, Luminor, Submersible, Luminor Due, and Radiomir Quaranta families already in the catalog, extending coverage within the Radiomir 1940 line.
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Because it was the first Radiomir 1940 execution to carry a white dial, within a Panerai catalog traditionally dominated by black dials.
From the radium-based radioluminescent material Panerai patented and used on the indexes of its original military watches from the late 1930s and early 1940s, built for the Italian Navy.
The Radiomir keeps the cushion case with welded lugs integrated into the case body, without the screwed-lug system and crown guard that characterize the Luminor line.
A full 3 days (72 hours), thanks to a twin-barrel-in-series system.
Yes, limited to 1,000 pieces, introduced ahead of the SIHH 2016 show.
It has 10 bar of water resistance (roughly 100 meters), enough for swimming but not designed as a technical dive tool.