Hi,
I've been looking to get a Panerai and have been researching for a while.
I've been looking ideally in the luminor range with the second hand at 9, with no date, with manual wind.
I'm after a super-rep and was quite keen on the noob PAM111 v3 with asian movt with incabloc mod after doing some reading.
But after some additional reading, decided that that there would be several tells on the glassback movement as I can't imagine a rep movement would be finished anywhere as nicely as a gen and that all it would take is some misprinted colour printing of the brand, for example, to give it away, in addition to issues with the swan neck, etc.
So then I decided that a covered case back would be the way to go, so I pored through ALE's PAM reference guide and given my criteria above, managed to find 2 models that fit my criteria:
PAM 318 (N factory)
PAM 247 (H factory)
What are your thoughts on these 2 models?
Anybody have one of these, and if so, how do you rate it?
What are the major and minor tells?
Are there any other luminor super reps out there I should be considering?
Thanks!