Panerai Radiomir
A large diving watch for the Italian navy's combat divers, with luminous numerals.
Panerai had developed a luminous paint, Radiomir, and made watches for the navy's divers at the end of the 1930s. They had to be read in dark water. The watches long remained military secrets and became civilian only in the 1990s.
Materials: Steel, luminous paint; hand-wound movement
Manufacture: The first cases and movements came from Rolex; the dials were painted in Florence.
The large cushion-shaped case with wire loops for the strap.
The large luminous numerals and markers.