How is my custom homage crown position?

[cougaree]

Any thoughts (in comparison to the gen)? It's almost very centered on the case. I've never owned a gen of this sort, so I have no idea if this is even close. Thanks for your comments!

[SEleven]

I was expecting a question on the crown-case spacing

But yeah, looks quite centered to me.

[kbiz]

if we said no not proper how would you change it??

[cougaree]

I would do nothing, but it's definitely good to know if it is or not. Is gen Pam's crown centered or bit off?

Thanks!

[babola]

Not bad actually. There are far worse around like some of Getat/Jackson and recent ones from DSN, but yours is quite good.

Edited May 5, 2010 by babola

[Mickey Padge]

It is a homage watch, it doesn't have to look like a gen, that's the whole point!

[cougaree]

You are right Mickey, but having the crown not centered kind of bothers me... I'm one of those guys like perfectly symmetrical things. So should I assume the answer is yes, the genuine Panerai have centered crown then?

[cougaree]

I guess I've found the answer to my question. See picture below. The original patent shows the crown in centered around the crown guard.

[babola]

That was the original CG design drawing used to file for a patent. It had however not much to do with the reality, even the watches made before and shortly after 1956 had a crown/CG design that's closer to the current and contemporary design.

That drawing is a good source, but really just a mock-up of the 'real' thing.

The crown on a pre-A to F-series sits just a slight bit higher than top of the CG,barely noticeable without detailed inspection. On the G-series onwards as well as pre-V models the top of the crown can appear even a little sunken or lower than the top of the CG, depending on an angle of view since the pre-V and G-series historic CG flares slightly out from the case up.

Basically, don't sweat these things as they're not worth sweating about, as I said in my post above - you're good to go, just plonk a nice CG on it and enjoy it!