With its case made entirely of BMG-TECH and the rotating bezel in carbotech, the new Submersible BMG-TECH is not only a professional diving watch with excellent technical characteristics but an outstanding example of the innovative abilities of the Panerai Laboratorio di Idee.
The unmistakable distinctive identity of the House is expressed in this new model through the use innovative materials, introduced into the world of high quality watchmaking by Panerai to improve the quality and performance of its creations even further.
The brush-finished case is made of BMG-TECH, a bulk metallic glass, that is, a material obtained from a particular glass-like alloy by a process which prevents a substantial crystallisation. The alloy (consisting of zirconium, copper, aluminium, titanium and nickel) is subjected to high pressure injection at a high temperature and then cooled for just a few seconds, so that the atoms do not have enough time to assume a regular, orderly structure, as normally happens in crystals.
This “chaotic” structure of the material is the secret of its properties: greater strength combined with greater resistance to corrosion, external shocks, and magnetic fields. The BMG-TECH case is enhanced by the bezel made of carbotech, a material based on carbon fibre which combines toughness and exceptional lightness with great character from an aesthetic point of view. In fact, carbotech makes each example of the new Panerai Submersible BMG-TECH unique, since the striations of carbotech’s carbon fibres are different in every watch.
Technical Specifications:
The case, in BMG-TECH, measures 47mm. Carbotech unidirectional rotating bezel. Titanium caseback. Titanium crown protector. It has an AR-coated sapphire crystal and it is water resistant to 300 meters.
Movement is the Swiss automatic Panerai in-house caliber P.9010 with 31 jewels, 28,800 vph and a power reserve of 3 days. Functions are: hours, minutes, small seconds, and date. The hours can be adjusted without interfering with the running of the minute hand, thanks to a device which moves the hour hand independently forwards or backwards in one-hour jumps.
The black dial has SuperLuminova hands and markers. Date at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’clock.
It comes on a black caoutchouc rubber strap with a titanium buckle.
